Note 127 — II 1325-1521

Braunfels, Versuch: ‘Montalvo hatte, um einer Uebersetzung den Ruhm des mustergiltigen Styls und des reinsten Kastilianisch zu verschaffen, ein Geist ersten Rangs sein müssen, was er nicht war.’ Montalvo was probably not the real author even of the fourth book. The words (in this Prólogo of his Amadis), que hasta aquí no es memoria de ninguno ser visto, refer not to the fourth book but to Montalvo’s Sergas de Esplandian, which is conveniently replaced by dots in T. Braga, Questões (1881), p. 99, and Hist. da Litt. Port., i (1909), p. 313, and which the priest in Don Quixote properly consigned to the flames.