Note 205 — BOOK VI.

Diego Murillo was born at Zaragoza about 1555, joined the Franciscans, and became a popular preacher. He is the author of the Instruccion para enseñar la virtud á los principiantes (Zaragoza, 1598), the Escala espiritual para la perfección evangélica (Zaragoza, 1598), the Vida y excelencias de la Madre de Dios (Zaragoza, 1610), and six volumes of Discursos predicables, published at Zaragoza and Lisbon between 1602 and 1611. The most accessible of Murillo's works are the Fundación milagrosa de la capilla angélica y apostólica de la Madre de Dios del Pilar (Barcelona, 1616), and a volume entitled Divina, dulce y provechosa poesía (Zaragoza, 1616). His verse (some specimens of which are given in Böhl de Faber's Floresta de rimas antiguas castellanas) is better than his prose, but in neither does he fulfil the expectations raised by Cervantes's compliments.