Note 45 — INTRODUCTION TO THE GALATEA.

The proof of this has been supplied independently by the late John Ormsby (see vol. iii. of the present edition (Glasgow, 1901), p. 51, n. i.); by Professor Hugo Albert Rennert (see The Spanish Pastoral Romances (Baltimore, 1892), p. 9); and by myself (see the Revue hispanique (Paris, 1895), vol. ii., pp. 304-311). All three appear to have been anticipated in the excellent monograph entitled Jorge de Montemayor, sein Leben und sein Schäferroman die "Siete Libros de la Diana" nebst einer Übersicht der Ausgaben dieser Dichtung und bibliographischen Anmerkungen herausgegeben von Georg Schönherr (Halle, 1886), p. 83.

The decisive point is that Ticknor's copy, the oldest known edition, must be at least as late as 1554, for Montemôr here refers to the Infanta Juana as a widow: see (lib. iv.) the fifth stanza of the Canto de Orfeo. Her husband, Dom João, died on January 2, 1554. A duplicate of the Ticknor volume is in the British Museum library.