Note 633 — PART IV PROBABILITY OF THE TRANSMISSION OF ISLAMIC MODELS TO CHRISTIAN EUROPE AND PARTICULARLY TO DANTE

That the lyrical and epic poetry of the then rising Christian literatures were also influenced by Hispano-Moslem models has been shown by my master Ribera in his Discursos de ingreso en las Academias Española y de la Historia (Madrid, 1912 and 1915). He has also traced the connection between Hispano-Moslem music and that of the French troubadours, in La música de las Cantigas (Madrid, 1922) and La música andaluza medieval en las canciones de trovadores y troveros (Madrid, 1923). How profound and extensive the influence of Arabic poetry was has also been shown by S. Singer, in Arabische und Europäische Poesie im Mittelalter (Berlin, 1918), and by Burdach, in Ueber den Ursprung des Mittelalterlichen Minnesangs (Berlin, 1918); these authors give the Arabic sources of poems such as Floire et Blanchefleur, Aucassin et Nicolette, and legends such as that of the Grail, Parsifal, and Tristan.—Note added.