520 Appendices. 



Transformaciones de Ovidio (Valladolid, 1589), el Licenciado 

 Pedro Sanchez Viana treats tlie subject of Dido's reputation like 

 one much discussed (pp. 2400, 250,, if.) ; he defends the queen, 

 "una tan casta matrona, como del glorioso sant Hieronymo consta 

 hauer sido Dido." Another translation, Los quinze libros de 

 los Metamorplioseos, etc., by Antonio Perez [Sigler], printed 

 earlier at Salamanca, 1580, was reprinted at Burgos, 1609, '^j 

 anadido por el mismo autor un Diccionario Poetico copiosissimo." 

 JSTow, although Ovid treats Dido and Aeneas after the manner 

 of Virgil (bk, XIV), the writer of the dictionary gives Dido's 

 history independent of Aeneas as the true version, not bestowing 

 on Virgil's hero a single word, p. 468o. Another defense of 

 Dido and praise of her chastity can be found in the Tratado en 

 loor de las mugeres y de la castidad, onestidad, etc., por Christoval 

 Acosta Affricano (In Venetia, 1592), p. 47. Antonio de Eslava, 

 Noches de Invierno (Barcelona, 1609), also speaks of the two dif- 

 ferent views of Dido's character, p. 176. Agustin de Eojas, Viaje 

 entretenido, 1604, in the "exposicion de los nombres historicos y 

 poeticos," appended to the work, gives under Dido, "su verdadera 

 historia, porque la que cuenta Virgilio . . . es falsa y fabu- 

 losa"; and Diego Agreda in his Lugares comunes de letras 

 kumanas, etc., traduzido de Toscano (Madrid, 1616) under Dido 

 (p. 89) says nothing of Aeneas; cf. also p. 96 on Aeneas. iSTot to 

 continue indefinitely these references to books of unequal importance 

 and interest — chosen from every field to show the widespread 

 acquaintance with the Dido legend — I shall close with Lope de 

 Vega's censure of Virgil in the prologue to La Circe (1624) ; cf. 

 Kennert, Life of Lope de Vega, p. 304, and Lope's Ohras no dramd- 

 ticas (Rivadeueyra) "Biblioteca de Autores Espanoles," p. 497. 

 Here too Lope blames Virgil for defaming a chaste woman. Thus 

 it becomes evident to what extent Dido's story in the Aeneid Avas 

 considered romance, and as such proper material to be imitated by 

 novelists. 



APPENDIX II. 



The comedias of Lope de Vega. 



Cf. Comedias escogidas de Lope de Vega (Rivadeneyra), 4 vols.; 

 the following are some of the references to Dido, Vol. I : "Matarse 

 quiere. — No hara. — Lo mismo cuentan de Dido, | Matose encen- 



