Note 276 — FIRST SECTION. History of Spanish Poetry and Eloquence, from the Introduction of the Italian Style to the Age of Cervantes and Lope de Vega. (continued 2)

The only unadulterated source from which all authors have hitherto derived their information relative to the earliest history of the Spanish drama, is Cervantes’s well known preface to his Ocho Comedias y Entremeses, an edition of which was published in two vols. quarto, by Blas Nasarre, at Madrid, in 1749. To this may be added the preface of the editor, Blas Nasarre, though it is but of secondary value, and has given occasion to singular mistakes. The article Comödie, in Blankenburg’s appendix to Sulzer’s dictionary, though rather obscure, communicates some useful facts.