Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Íñigo López de Mendoza, the Marqués de Santillana | Michele S. de Cruz-Saenz (essay date spring 1981)

Michele S. de Cruz-Saenz (essay date spring 1981)

SOURCE: de Cruz-Saenz, Michele S. “The Marqués De Santillana's Coplas on Don Alvaro de Luna and the Doctrinal de privados.Hispanic Review 49, no. 2 (spring 1981): 219-24.

[In the following essay, Cruz-Saenz attempts to ascertain the relationship between Santillana's coplas on Don Alvaro De Luna and the Doctrinal de Privados.]

In 1900, as Francisco de Uhagón was comparing the privately-owned Cancionero de Oñate-Castañeda with other cancionero manuscripts, he noticed a poem not included by Amador de los Ríos when he published this same cancionero in 1852. This poem, entitled “Otras coplas del dicho ssenor Marques sobrel mesmo casso,” follows the Marqués' “Doctrinal de privados,” in the codex. The manuscript of the Cancionero de Oñate-Castañeda disappeared soon after Uhagón's publication of the unedited portions in the...

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