51
Farinelli, 29. Cf. Lapesa, 216-19. The work is in Cancionero castellano, i. 475-96, with the passage quoted appearing on p. 475.
52
Their popularity later in the century is (as Mrs. P. J. Waley has pointed out to me) attested by the fact that when the malefactor Arcalaus is imprisoned, in the fourth book of Amadis de Gaula, he is found in his cell wrapped in a fur cloak and reading 'un libro que le envió de muy buenos enjemplos é dotrinas contra las adversidades de la fortuna' (BAE, xl. 389).
53
Lapesa, 137, 151, 209, and 221.
54
Cancionero castellano, ii (NBAE 22, Madrid, 1912), 535-59.
55
This was in 1442: Schiff, lxxxv and appendix I. See also Luciano Serrano, Los conversos D. Pablo de Santa María y D. Alfonso de Cartagena (Madrid, 1942), and -a more important work- F. Cantera Burgos, Álvar García de Santa María y su familia de conversos (Madrid, 1952), especially pp. 416-64.
56
Farinelli, 12-13.
57
Cantera Burgos, 198-9. The inventory accompanying the will includes: 'un libro q. se llama Francisco Petrarcha De remediis utriusque fortune et De Via solitaria, en un volumen, en latin, cobierto de colorado, papel gastonado en pergamino.
Otro libro aparte De via solitaria, de papel, coberturas pardillas'.
58
Ed. M. Menéndez y Pelayo (Madrid 1891 - Sociedad de Bibliófilos Españoles 28), 10. The reference is noted by Farinelli, 18-19.
59
Obras, ed. A. paz y Melia (madrid, 1884 - SBE 22).
60
'Juan Rodríguez del Padrón: Vida y obra', NRFH, vi (1952), 313-51 (p. 350).