Note 118 — BOOK VI.
Herman Oelsner translation
Leiva's work would seem to have disappeared. In the Casa de Memoria, which forms part of the Diversas Rimas (1591), Espinel refers to an Alonso de Leiva in much the same terms as Cervantes uses here:—
El ánimo gentil, el dulce llanto, El blando estilo, con que enternecido Don Alonso de Leyva quando canta A Venus enamora, á Marte espanta.