← Table of contents
History of Spanish Literature, vol. 3 (of 3)

Note 4 — Chapter XXXI

Reading edition

Rimas, 1634, pp. 56, 234, 254. It is singular, however, that, while Bartolomé imitates Horace, he expresses his preference for Juvenal.

Pero quando á escribir sátiras llegues, A ningun irritado cartapacio, Sino al del cauto Juvenal, te entregues.

He seems, too, to have been accounted an imitator of Juvenal by his contemporaries; for Guevara, in his “Diablo Cojuelo,” Tranco IX., calls him “Divino Juvenal Aragones.” But it is impossible not to see that he is full of Horatian turns of thought.

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings