SANTILLANA  , I$IGO See also:

• LOPEZ, CARLOS ANTONIO (1790-1862)

LOPEZ DE See also:

• MENDOZA
• MENDOZA, ANTONIO HURTADO DE (1593?-1644)
• MENDOZA, DIEGO HURTADO DE (1503-1575)
• MENDOZA, PEDRO GONZALEZ DE (1428-1495)

MENDOZA, See also:

• MARQUIS

MARQUIS OF (1398-1458), Castilian poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Carrion de los Condes in Old See also:

• CASTILE, or CASTILLE (Castilla)

Castile on the 19th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1398 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, See also:

• GRAND

grand See also:

• ADMIRAL

admiral of Castile, having died in 1405, the boy was educated under the See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye of his See also:

• MOTHER

mother, Dona Leonor de la See also:

• VEGA, GARCILASO DE LA
• VEGA, GARCILASO DE LA (1503-1536)

Vega, a woman of See also:

• GREAT

great strength of See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character . From his eighteenth See also:

• YEAR

year onwards he became an increasingly prominent figure at the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of Juan II. of Castile, distinguishing himself in both See also:

• CIVIL

civil and military service; he was created marques de Santillana and See also:

• CONDE
• CONDE, LOUIS DE BOURBON, PRINCE
• CONDE, LOUIS II
• CONDE, PRINCES OF

conde del Real de See also:

• MANZANARES

Manzanares for the See also:

• PART

part he took in the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Olmedo (19th of May 1455) . In the struggle of the Castilian nobles against the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of the See also:

• CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
• CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
• CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
• CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
• CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)

constable Alvaro de See also:

• LUNA (mod. Luni)
• LUNA, ALVARO DE (d. 1453)

Luna he showed great moderation, but in 1452 he joined the See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination which effected the fall of the favourite in the following year . From the See also:

• DEATH

death of Juan II. in 1454 Mendoza took little part in public affairs, devoting himself mainly to the pursuits of literature and to pious meditation . He died at See also:

• GUADALAJARA

Guadalajara on the 25th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1458 . Mendoza shares with Juan de Villalpando the distinction of introducing the See also:

• SONNET (Ital. Sonetto, dim. of Suono, Fr. Sonnet)

sonnet into Castile, but his productions in this class are conventional metrical exercises . He was much more successful in the serranilla and vaqueira—highland pastorals after the Provencal manner . His rhymed collection of Proverbios de See also:

• GLORIOSA

gloriosa doctrina e fructuosa ensenanza was prepared for the use of See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

Don Enrique, the See also:

• HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir-apparent . To the same didactic See also:

• CATEGORY (Gr. Karrlyopia, " accusation ")

category belong the See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred and eighty stanzas entitled Didlogo de See also:

• BIAS
• BIAS (from the Fr. biais, of unknown origin; the derivation from Lat. bifax, two-faced, is wrong)

Bias contra See also:

• FORTUNA (FORTUNE)

Fortuna, while the Doctrinal de Privados is a See also:

• BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter denunciation of Alvaro de Luna . The Comedieta de See also:

• PONZA (anc. Pontine)

Ponza is a Dantesque See also:

• DREAM (from a root dreug, connected with Germ. trugen, to deceive)

dream-See also:

• DIALOGUE

dialogue, in See also:

• OCTAVE (from Lat. octavus, eighth, octo, eight)

octave stanzas (de arte See also:

• MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
• MAYOR, JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH (1825– )

mayor), founded on the disastrous See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-fight off Ponza in 1425, when the See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings of See also:

• ARAGON, or ARRAGON (in Span. Aragon)

Aragon and See also:

• NAVARRE (Span. Navarra)

Navarre and the See also:

• INFANTE (Spanish and Portuguese form of Lat. infans, young child)

Infante Enrique were taken prisoners by the Genoese . The three last-named compositions are the best of Santillana's more ambitious poems, but they are deficient in the elegant simplicity of the serranillas .

These unpretentious songs are in every See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish See also:

• ANTHOLOGY

anthology, and are See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar even to uneducated Spaniards .