The History of Peter the Cruel, King of Castile And Leon: With Additional Notes 2
The History of Peter the Cruel, King of Castile And Leon: With Additional Notes 2
Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870. Cn
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In a note to his " Chronicle of the Cid," Dr. Southey says, " Pellicer discredited the story of Count Julian and his daughter, hecause it is not mentioned in the three oldest Chronicles, and this opinion has been too lightly adopted by other writers without farther consideration. But the authors of those Chronicles wrote with the utmost birevity, and never entered into the particulars of any event. All the Moorish historians relate the circumstance, and all the Spanish traditions agree with the...m. The Marques de Mondejar, one of the most sceptical as well as most learned investigators of Spanish history admits this story as authentic, and he is followed by Ferreras — a writer as sceptical as himself.^' Conde too, attaches credit to the tale of the apostacy and desertion of Count Julian, though he treats the romantic history of the Count's daughter, Florinda or Cava, so favourite a subject with poets and balladmongers, with sovereign con- tempt.—- r. PETER THE CRUEL. 209 resolved to draw the bonds still closer by a marriage between their children.
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