Note 52 — INTRODUCTION TO THE GALATEA.
Herman Oelsner translation
It is just possible, however, that Cervantes may have omitted the Habidas deliberately; for though Ticknor (op. cit., vol. iii., p. 99, n. 18), on the authority of Gayangos, quotes the book as "among the earliest imitations of the Diana," so excellent a scholar as Professor Rennert (op. cit., p. 111) inclines to think "that it is rather a 'Novela Caballeresca.'"