Note 9 — LIFE OF CERVANTES.
Thomasina Ross translation
“Relacion de la muerte y exequias de la Reyna Doña Isabel de Valois,”—(Published in Madrid in 1569). It is worthy of notice that the first poetic essays of Cervantes were dedicated to the memory of a princess, whose marriage with Phillip II., after having been the affianced bride of his son, forms a romantic episode in history, and is the subject of Schiller’s tragedy of Don Carlos.