Note 289 — Chapter IX · WAR WITH THE TURKS.
Reading edition
Ferreras, Hist. d'Espagne, tom. x. pp. 239, 240.—Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, p. 641.—Zuñiga, Anales de Sevilla, pp. 536-538.
The chroniclers paint in glowing colours the splendours of the royal reception at Seville, which, enriched by the Indian trade, took its place among the great commercial capitals of Christendom in the sixteenth century. It was a common saying,
"Quien no ha visto á Sevilla
No ha visto á maravilla."