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MS has not survived. Previously published: Monthly Magazine, 5 (March 1798), 195–196 [from where the text is taken] under the pseudonym ‘T.Y.’. For attribution to Southey, see Kenneth Curry, ‘Southey’s contributions to The Monthly Magazine and The Athenaeum’, The Wordsworth Circle, 11 (1980), 216.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Bernardino de RebolledoSan Juan.
Garcilaso de la Vega (1501–1536), Spanish poet and soldier, who died at Nice
from wounds received in battle at Le Muy. Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga
(1533–1594), Spanish soldier and author of Selva Militar y Politica,” which treats of besieged
places, he enumerates, among the provisions necessary for the siege, physicians,
surgeons, and medicine chests.
After serving in the Low Countries, and negociating with many of the German powers, the count was appointed plenipotentiary to the court of Denmark. But Copenhagen was besieged during his residence there, and for two years the Spanish ambassador assisted in defending the town. After so many toils and dangers he returned to Madrid, full of years and of glory; new honours were accumulated upon him, and he died in that city, universally respected, at the age of fourscore.
Amid the toils and occupations of so adventurous a life,
Rebolledo produced those poems that have ranked him among the nine Castilian
muses.Ocios” chiefly consisting of lyric pieces. From this volume
a curious epistle is extracted in the “Parnaso Espanol,”
hitherto my guide.Ocios of Rebolledo, and as displaying profound
erudition, solid piety, exquisite taste, and accurate judgment.
In the same volume there is a madrigal, curiously exemplifying
the text; “every one that exalteth himself shall be abased, but he that humbleth
himself shall be exalted.”