Research Guides: Spanish: Renaissance Authors (1451-1550)

Renaissance Spanish Authors (see next box for anonymous works)

Acuña, Hernando de (1520? -1580)
Description: Varias Poesías. Madrid: Sancha, 1804. xiii, 311 p.
Translation: PBSV, RBPS.
Alcaudete, Alonso de (d. 1580?)
Transl. only: APRS.
Altamira, Visconde de (d. 1580?)
Translation: APRS.
Alvarez de Toledo, Fadrique, 2nd Duque de Alba (d. ca. 1520)
A poem on the occasion of Don Luis de la Cueva "fantastic pirouette" (pp. 402-403)
Alvarez de Toledo, Fernando, 3rd Duque de Alba (1507-1582)
Anghiera, Pietro Martire d’ (1457-1526) [also Pedro Mártir Anglería, Peter the Martyr, etc.]
Online copies of: (1) The first three English books on America (Westminister: Constable, 1895); (2) his De Orbe Novo vol. 1 and vol. 2 (New York: Putnam, 1912).
Ávila, Juan de (1500-1569)
Note: See also Luis de Grenada's Obras for his "Life of Juan de Avila."
Translation: Letters of the Blessed John of Avila. (Worcester, England: Burns & Oates, 1904. iv, 168 p.)
Ávila y Zúñiga, Luis de, (1500-1564). [also Luis de Ávila y Çuñiga]
Boscán, Juan (1490?-1542)
Also: Las Obras de Juan Boscán Repartidas en Tres Libros, ed. by William Ireland Knapp. Madrid: Librería de M. Murillo, 1875. xxxi, 593. (online) and Las Treinta of Juan Boscán (poems), ed. by Hayward Keniston. New York: The Knickerbocker Pr., 1911. 23 p. (online).
Translation: HA, HSL, LAN, LWBL, PBSV, PPE, RBPS.
See also: Henry Thomas. "Three Translators of Gongora and Other Spanish Poets" Revue Hispanique, vol. 48 (1920). pp. 192 et seq. (Boscán's "Love's Embassy ...").
Casas, Bartolomé de las (1484-1566)
Castillejo, Cristobal de (1492?-1550)
Also: His Diálogo Sobre las Mujeres: Sermon de Amores (Madrid: Camara de S.M., 1878. 165 p.), and selections in Poetas Líricos de los Siglos XVI y XVII, ed. & arr. by Adolfo de Castro (Madrid: Rivadeneyra, 1854-57. 2 vols.)
Translation: HA, PBSV, RBPS.
Castro y Anaya, Pedro de (fl. late 16th Century)
Translation: HA, PPE.
See Also Translation: Poems, by William Cullen Bryant. New York: Harper, 1839. xii, 276 p. (anthology of original and translated works).
Cetina, Gutierrre de (1518?-1554?)
See also his collected works: Obras de Gutierre de Cetina, ed. by Joaquín Hazañas y la Rúa. Sevilla: F. de P. Diaz, 1895. 2 vols.
Translations: HSL, PBSV, RBPS.
Colón, Cristóbal (Christopher Columbus) (1451-1506).
Colón, Fernando (1488-1539)
Cortés, Hernán (1485-1547).
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal (1496-1584)
Encina, Juan del (1468-1529?)
Escrivà, El Comendador Joan (d. ca. 1547) [i.e. Baltasar Escrivà de Romaní]
Note: On the identity of "El Comendador Escriva," see Parisi, Iván (2009). «La verdadera identidad del Comendador Escrivá, poeta valenciano de la primera mitad del siglo XVI». Estudis Romànics (Institut d’Estudis Catalans) 31: pp. 141-162. (Institut d'Estudis Catalans)
Contents: Poems nos. 131-151 ascribed to Escrivà in volume 2 entry linked above. Also poems nos. 392-96, 621, & 658 in volume 1 (see index in volume 2).
Translation: G (v. 1, p. 95), HA.
Eslava, Antonio de (b. 1570)
Translation: SN (vol. 2, p. 271 ff.)
Fernández, Jerónimo (1520?-1585?)
Note: English translation only.
Translation of: Historia del Valeroso e Invencible Principe don Belianis de Grecia (1547-1579).
Fernández de Heredia, Juan, (ca. 1480-1549).
Translation: PPE
Holdings: Copy also available online ("Obras" = Works).
Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo (1478-1557)
Also online: Historia General y Natural de las Indias (Madrid: Real academia de la Historia, 1851-52. 3 pts. in 4 vols.).
Note: "The third part of this important history, which comprises the entire of the fourth volume, had never been published" (Sabin).
Flores, Juan de (fl. late 15th - early 16th centuries)
Also Online: (1)Swetnam and the Woman Hater Arraigned by Women. Blackburn, England: C. E. Simms, 1880. lii, 95 p.; & (2) Breve Tractado de Grimalte y Gradissa. Madrid, 1883. xi, 113 p.
Fonseca, Cristóbal de (1550?-1621).
Note: His Tratado del Amor de Dios (Cordoba: Andres Barrera, 1596. 16, 718, 50 p.).
Translation: Theion Enōtikon: A Discourse of Holy Love. London, Printed for J. Flesher for Richard Royston, 1652.
Furió Ceriol, Fadrique (1532-1592)
Note: UND holdings also available online.
Translation: Of Councils and Counselors, trans. by Thomas Blundeville. London: Seres, 1570. 140 p.
Guevara, Antonio de (1480-1545)
Translations: (1) The Dial of Princes (Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius), trans. by Thomas North; ed, by Kenneth Newton Colvile. London: P. Allan, 1919. xlviii, 263 p.; (2) A Chronicle, Containing the Lives of Ten Emperors of Rome, trans. by Edward Hellowes. London: Ralphe Newberrie, 1577. 484 p.; (3) Letters of Wit, Politicks, and Morality. London: Hartley, 1701. 427 p.
Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint (1491-1556 )
Jiménez de Urrea, Pedro Manuel (ca.1486-ca. 1530)
Available Online: (1) Penitencia de Amor [1514] (Barcelona: "L'Avenç, " 1902), (2) Cancionero [1513] (Saragossa: Hospicio Provincial, 1878).
Translation: HSL
López de Gómara, Francisco (1511-1564)
Online edition: Conquista de México: Segunda Parte de la Crónica General de las Indias. Mexico: Escalante, 1870. 2 vols.
López de Villalobos, Francisco (1473-1549)
Online edition: The Medical Works of Francisco López de Villalobos, the Celebrated Court Physician of Spain, now first tr., with commentary and biography, by George Gaskoin. London: Churchill, 1870. viii, 312 p.
López Maldonado, Gabriel (fl. 1580s)
Note: Online text of his Cancionero. Madrid: Guillermo Droy, 1586. 22, 356 p.
Mexía, Pedro (1496?-1552?)
Digital copy of UND holdings: Historiadores de Sucesos Particulares, comp. & ed. by Cayetano Rosell. (Madrid : M. Rivadeneyra, 1858-1863. 2 vols.).
See also: His Coloquios o Dialogos (8th ed.) Madrid: F.X. Garcia, 1767. 8, 260 p.
Mey, Filipe (d. ca. 1580)
Translation: APRS
Monardes, Nicolás (1512?-1588)
Online edition: Sevillana Medicina que Trata el Modo Conservativo y Curativo de los que Habitan en la Muy Insigne Ciudad de Sevilla, by Nicolás Monardes. Sevilla: E. Rasco, 1885. xii, 346 p. [first published in 1545]
Montesino, Ambrosio (Fr.) (d. 1514)
Note: Online ed. of above work: Romancero y Cancionero Sagrados, comp. & ed. by Justo de Sancha. Madrid: M. Rivadeneyra, 1855. vii, 568 p.
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar (d. 1564)
Osuna, Francisco de (d. ca. 1540)
Holdings: UND has English translation only.
Note: Distinguish from Francisco Rodríguez Marín (1855-1943) who used pseudonym "Francisco de Osuna." This writer was author of La Onza de Oro y la Perra Chica (Sevilla, 1899).
Padilla, Pedro de (ca. 1545-1599)
Note: Online text (above): Iardin Espiritval ... (Madrid: Querino Gerardo. 1585. 9, 259, 10 p.).
Also Available Online: His Eglogas Pastoriles (Sevilla, A. Pescioni, 1582. 246 leaves).
Translations: APRS, PBSV, PPE.
Paris, Juan de (1460-1530).
Translation: HSL (excerpts).
Peter, of Alcántara, Saint (1499-1562) [also San Pedro de Alcántara]
Proaza, Alonso de (1480?-1530?)
Note: Selections above in vol. 2 (pp. 687 ff.)
Also Available (Online): His Comedia Nuevamente Compuesta LLamada Seraphina (Madrid: Aribau, 1874. 111 p.), first printed in 1521.
Rodríguez de Montalvo, Garci (ca. 1480-1550)
Online ed.: (1) Amadís de Gaul (4 vols.); (2) Libros de Caballerias ("Las Sergas de Muy Esforzado Caballero Esplandián" 5th vol. of Amadís de Gaul narrative, pp. 403 ff.)
Rojas, Fernando de (d. 1541).
Rueda, Lope de (1510?-1565)
Online Texts: Obras (Madrid: Sucesores de Hernando, 1908. 2 vols.)
San Pedro, Diego de (fl. late 14th/early 15 cent.)
Sánchez de Badajoz, Garci (ca. 1460-ca. 1526)
Translation: APRS, PBSV.
Santa Cruz, Melchor de (fl. early/mid-16th cent.)
Segura, Juan de (fl. 16th cent.)
Torquemada, Antonio de (d. 1569)
Translation: "The Spanish Mandevile of Miracles, or, The Garden of Curious Flowers," trans. by Ferdinand Walker. Retrospective Review. vol. 8 (1823) pp. 271-85. (excerpts)
Torres Naharro, Bartolomé de (1476?-1531?)
Online text: Propaladia de Bartolomé de Torres Naharro, ed. by Manuel Cañete; with critical study by Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo. [Libros de antaño; vols. 9-10] Madrid: F. Fé, 1880-1900. 2 vols. Volume 1 -- Volume 2
Translations: HSL.
See also: his "Hymen (Comedia Himenea)," trans. by W. H. H. Chambers. The Drama. Vol. 6 (1903). pp. 253-280.
Valdés, Alfonso de (1490?-1532)
Online Texts Also Available: his Dos Diálogos. Madrid: S.n., 1850. xx, 481 p. Originally published in 1530 & 1586.
Note: Dialogs formerly ascribed to Juan de Valdés, now attributed to his brother, Alfonso. cf. M. Bataillon's "Alfonso de Valdés, auteur du 'Diálogo de Mercurio y Carón'" in Homenaje Ofrecido a Menéndez Pidal (1925) v.1, p. [403]-415. (not available online or at UND).
Valdés, Juan de (d. 1541).
Online Texts: Life and Writings of Juan de Valdés, Otherwise Valdesso, Spanish Reformer in the Sixteenth Century, ed. by Benjamin B. Wiffen; trans. by John T. Betts. London: B. Quaritch, 1865. xiii, 590 p.
Valera, Cipriano de (1532?-1625)
Note: Author was also a Biblical and religions (tracts) translator. Linked UND text above.
Online Texts: (1) Tratado para Confirmar en la Fe Cristiana a los Cautivos de Berbería (San Sebastian: I.R. Baroja, 1854. 378 p.); (2) Los Dos Tratados del Papa, i de la Misa (Madrid: S.n., 1851. 16, 610, 72 p.).
Vega, Garcilaso de la (1503-1536)
Translation: The Works of Garcilaso de la Vega, Surnamed the Prince of Castilian Poets, trans. by Jeremiah H. Wiffin. London: Hurst & Robinson, 1823. xxii, 407 p.
Vicente, Gil (1469-1536)
Online Texts: (1) Lyrics of Gil Vicente, trans. by Aubrey F. G. Bell. Oxford: Blackwell, 1914. xii, 129 p.; (2) Four Plays of Gil Vicente, ed. & trans. by Aubrey F. G. Bell. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1920. li, 98 p.; (3) Teatro Español Anterior á Lope de Vega, ed. by Juan Nicolás Böhl de Faber. Hamburg: Perthes, 1832. iv, 471 p.
Villegas, Antonio de (fl. 1550s)
Translations: APRS, HSL, PPE.
Online Text: Historia del Abencerraje y la Hermosa Jarifa, y Otros Cuentos. Madrid: Compañía Ibero-Americana, 1900. 159 p.
Note: The Abencerraje has been erroneously attributed to Antonio de Villegas or to Jorge de Montemayor. Cf. M. Menéndez y Pelayo. Orígenes de la novela, 1946; A. Flores. Masterpieces of the Spanish golden age. [1957].
Vives, Juan Luis (1492-1540)
Zárate, Agustin de (d. 1560)
Linked Text (above): Relación do Todo lo Sucedido en la Provincia del Pirú desde que Blasco Nuñez Vela fué Enviado por S.M. a Ser Visorey della, que se Embarco a Primero de Noviembre del Año de M.D.X.L.III. Lima: Printed by the State, 1870. 203 p.
Note: Attributed by many historians to Agustín de Zárate, but according to Jiménez de la Espada (1831-1898), it could be the work of Pedro de la Gasca. (see José Toribio Medina's Diccionario de Anónimos y Seudónimos Hispanoamericanos, v. 2, p. 199).

Renaissance Spanish Poetry and Ballad Anthologies (English Translations)

Anthologies and Individual Anonymous Works

(1) Anthologies

Ancient Ballads from the Civil Wars of Granada, and the Twelve Peers of France by Thomas Rodd.
Call Number: ONLINE RESOURCE
Publication Date: 1803
Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain by selected & translated by John Bowring.
Call Number: PQ 6267 .E3 B7
Publication Date: 1824
ONLINE COPY AVAILABLE
Ancient Spanish Ballads, Historical and Romantic by translated with notes by John Gibson Lockhart.
Call Number: PQ 6267 .E4 B26 1861
Publication Date: 1861 (new rev. ed.)
ONLINE COPY AVAILABLE.
Anthology of Mexican Poetry by Octavio Paz; trans. by Samuel Beckett.
Call Number: PQ7299.E3 B4
Publication Date: 1958
The Cid Ballads and Other Poems by trans. by James Young Gibson; ed. by Margaret Dunlop Gibson.
Call Number: ONLINE RESOURCE
Publication Date: 1898
Folk Songs from the Spanish by translated by Helen Huntington.
Call Number: ONLINE RESOURCE
Publication Date: 1900
Moorish Literature: Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabyles, Folk-lore, and National Traditions by trans. by René Basset.
Call Number: PQ 6267 .E4 B27 1901
Publication Date: 1901
ONLINE COPY AVAILABLE.
Spanish and Portuguese Drama by ed. by Alfred Bates.
Call Number: ONLINE RESOURCE
Publication Date: 1903
Vol. 6 of The Drama. London: Athenian Society, 1903-1906. 22 vols.
Spanish Folk Songs by selected and translated with an introduction by Salvador de Madariaga.
Call Number: ONLINE RESOURCE
Publication Date: 1922
Teatro Español de Siglo XVI by comp. & ed. by Urban Cronan.
Call Number: PQ 6219 .C8 1913
Publication Date: 1913
Note: Published as "volume 1." No additional volumes(?).
ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE.

(2) Individual Anonymous Works
Cancionero General: ... Según la Edición de 1511, con un Apéndice de lo Añadido en las de 1527, 1540 y 1557 by de Hernando del Castillo
Call Number: ONLINE RESOURCE
Publication Date: 1882 (2 vols.)
Volume 1
Volume 2
[Palmerín Cycle] by Translated by Anthony Munday; corrected by Robert Southey.
Call Number: ONLINE RESOURCE
Publication Date: London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807. 4 vols.
Note: Book 1: Palmerín de Olivia (1511), probably by Francisco Vázquez. -- Book 2: Primaleón (1516), also probably by Vázquez. -- Book 3: Platir (1533), attrib. to Francisco de Enciso Zárate. -- Book 4: Palmerín de Inglaterra (1547), by Francisco de Moraes.
Reference: See Palmerin of England: Some Remarks on This Romance and of the Controversy Concerning Its Authorship, by William Edward Purser. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1904. 2, x, 466 p.