King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

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scholars many of whom were circumcised.
His own library was famous, and the burn-
ing thereof is truth of history, whether or
not we may trust the racy letter of the
Bachelor of Ciudad Real; it is a more
wanton and a graver loss than that of Don
Quixote (which may indeed have taken a
hint therefrom) and in the field of Hebrew
and Arabic probably irreparable. He died
in 1434. He was a perfect humanist, and
in him the growing ideals of the Renais-
sance clashed with those of the age just
passing; he was modern, secular, and
personal.
Nor may we forget that Macias o Namo-
rado was of his household, that trobador
that died because he loved so well; though
how or on what occasion none are agreed,
yet all admit that surely he died for love.
So the Renaissance and the mediaeval
types are still seen in juxtaposition: the
ripe old humanist with the fatal lover, the
author of an early and curious treatise on
poetics and diction in general, with the
subject of a recent and delightful grammar
of the Gallegan speech. D. Enrique had
Macias o
Namorado
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