Note note to p. 86, l. 1 — POESÍAS DE LOS SIGLOS XVI-XVII
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Page 86.—l. 1. This sonnet has been Englished by Archdeacon Churton (in his translations from Gongora, etc., London, 1862, vol. I, p. 223). The naval battle of Lepanto (near Corinth) took place on October 7, 1571, between the Turks on one side, and on the other the combined squadrons of Spain, Venice and Pope Pius V, under the command of Don John of Austria, a natural brother of Philip II. The Christians triumphed and Mohammedan inroads into the Occident were checked. Cervantes was crippled in this battle.—Ponto, ocean, sea.