Periodical (dates): The Edinburgh Review (1802-1929)

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Volume: 25

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Number: 49

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Date: 1815 (June)

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Place of publication: Edinburgh

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Pages: 31-63

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Editor: Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850)

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Author (Reviewer): William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

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Book (Reviewed):

Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi. De la Littérature du Midi de L’Europe, 3 vols. (Paris and Strasbourg: Treuttel et Würtz, 1813).

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Brief description:

William Hazlitt reviews Sismondi’s popular history of the literatures of the South of Europe and focuses on French and Italian literatures, but he hardly mentions Spanish literature.

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Spanish authors mentioned:

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Enrique de Villena o de Aragón y Castilla, also known as el Astrólogo, Marquis of Villena (1384-1434)
Ausiàs March (1397-1459)
Joannot Martorell (c. 1410-1465).

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Spanish works mentioned:

Las Sergas de Esplandián (Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, 1510)

Don Quijote de la Mancha (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1605, 1615)

Tirant lo Blanch (Joannot Martorell, 1490).

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Other relevant Spanish names mentioned:

Ramón Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, Gerona, Osona and Cerdaña, and prince of Aragon (1113/1114-1162)

Alfonso VI, King of León and Castile (1040-1109)

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, also known as The Cid (c. 1043-1095)

Enrique de Villena or of Aragon and Castile, also known as el Astrólogo, Marquis of Villena (1384-1434)

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Spanish place names:

Valencia

Barcelona

Galicia

Castilla La Nueva

Toledo

Roncesvalles

Aragon

Catalonia

Valencia

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References to Spanish relevant historic events:

Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula (722-1492)

Conquest of Toledo by Alfonso VI, King of León and Castile (1085)

Battle of Roncesvaux Pass (778)

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Additional information:

Refrence to the Kingdon of Valencia (

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