Identifier: 40

Title of the Review/Article: 

Studies in Spanish History No. II. (Article no. IX)

Periodical (dates): The New Monthly Magazine (1814-1884)
Volume: 11
Number: 43
Date: 1824 (July)
Place of publication: London
Pages: 28-35
Editor: Henry Colburn (1784/5-1855)
Author (Reviewer): Joseph Blanco White (1775-1841)
Book (Reviewed):

Don Juan Manuel. El conde Lucanor (Sevilla: Hernando Díaz, 1575).


Brief description:

It includes Blanco’s free translation of “Lo que sucedió a don Pero Núñez el Leal, Ruy González de Ceballos y a don Gutierre Ruiz de Blanquillo con el conde Rodrigo el Franco,” tale 44 of Don Juan Manuel’s El conde Lucanor. The translation is preceded by a brief article where Blanco provides some information on Don Juan Manuel’s life and context.


Spanish authors mentioned:

Don Juan Manuel (1282-1348)
Gonzalo Argote de Molina (1548-1596)


Spanish works mentioned:

El Conde Lucanor (Don Juan Manuel, 1575)

Lucidario (commissioned by Sancho IV of Castile, c. 1292)

Setenario (Alfonso X de Castilla, 1252-1255)


Spanish works translated (P=Partially, F=Fully):

“Lo que sucedió a don Pero Núñez el Leal, Ruy González de Ceballos y a don Gutierre Ruiz de Blanquillo con el conde Rodrigo el Franco” [El conde Lucanor] (Don Juan Manuel, 1575) (F)


Other relevant Spanish names mentioned:

Alfonso III el Magno, King of Asturias] (848-910)

Ferdinand III of Castile (c.1199-1252)

Alfonso X, King of Castile (1221-1284)

Sancho IV of Castile (1258-1295)

Fernando de la Cerda, Prince of Castile (1255-1275)

Ferdinand IV of Castile (1285-1312)

Alfonso XI, King of Castile (1311-1350)

Constanza Manuel de Villena, Queen consort of Castile and later of Portugal (1316-1345)

Juan de Haro, first Señor of Cuéllar (c. 1293-1326)

Juan Núñez de Lara III (c. 1300-1350)

Ferdinand I of Aragon, Prince of Castille, King of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sicily, Sardinia and Corcega (1380-1416)

Jerónimo Zurita (1512-1580)

Alonso Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia (1550-1615)


Spanish place names:

Seville

Madrid

León

Antequera

Aragón


References to Spanish relevant historic events:

Granada War (1482-1492)


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