THE LATER RENAISSANCE IN SPAIN.
THE UNITY OF SPANISH LITERATURE-LIMITS OF TREATMENT-A PREVAIL-
ING CHARACTERISTIC-THE DIVISION INTO NATIVE AND IMITATIVE-
THE INHERITANCE FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY-SPANISH VERSE
-THE CANCIONEROS -THE ROMANCES-THE ROMANCEROS
THE QUALITY OF THIS POETRY-SPAIN AND ITALY-THE "DIÁLOGO
DE LA LENGUA -PROSE OF THE EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY-THE
INFLUENCE OF THE INQUISITION.
THE Literature of Spain, of which the Portuguese is the little sister, or even at times the echo, stands apart. In this fact lies the excuse for the Spanish Litera division adopted in this volume. There is at first sight something arbitrary in beginning a survey of Literature of the later Renaissance with a book written at the close of the fifteenth century. To carry the story on till the close of the