Note 144 — BOOK VI.

Pedro de Padilla and Cervantes were on excellent terms: "es amigo mio," says the latter in Don Quixote (Part I., chap. vi). Cervantes contributed complimentary verses to Padilla's Romancero (1583), to his Jardín espiritual (1585), and to his posthumous Grandezas y Excelencias de la Virgen (1587). Padilla died in August 1585, shortly after the publication of the Galatea: his Romancero has been reprinted (1880) by the Sociedad de Bibliófilos españoles.