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195 CLASSICAL LEARNING.— SCIENCE. 195 The extent of this generous emulation may be chapter gathered from the large correspondence both of ^J L_ Martyr and Marineo with their disciples, including of the" no-'' the most considerable persons of the Castilian court ; it may be still further inferred from the numerous dedications to these persons, of contem- porary publications, attesting their munificent pa- tronage of literary enterprise ; ^^ and, still more un- equivocally, from the zeal with which many of the highest rank entered on such severe literary labor as few, from the mere love of letters, are found willing to encounter. Don Gutierre de Toledo, son of the duke of Alva, and a cousin of the king, taught in the university of Salamanca. At the same place, Don Pedro Fernandez de Velasco, son of the count of Haro, who subsequently succeeded his father in the hereditary dignity of grand con- stable of Castile, read lectures on Pliny and Ovid. Don Alfonso de Manrique, son of the count of Paredes, was professor of Greek in the university of Alcala. All ages seemed to catch the generous enthusiasm ; and the marquis of Denia, although Tiraboschi, Letteratura Italiana, historian of Spanish literature, torn. vii. part. 3, lib. 3, cap. 4. — Tiraboschi must be admitted to Comp. Lampillas, Saggio Storico- have the better of his antagonist Apologetico de la Letteratura in temper, if not in argument. Spagnuola, (Genova, 1778,) torn. ^6 Among these we find copious ii. dis. 2, sect. 5. — The patriotic translations from the ancient clas- Abate is greatly scandalized by the sics, as Cssar, Appian, Plutarch, degree of influence, which Tira- Plautus, Sallust, ^sop, Justin, boschi and other Italian critics as- Boethius, Apulius, Herodian, af- cribe to their own language over fording strong evidence of the ac- the Castilian, especially at this tivity of the Castilian scholars in period. The seven volumes, in this department. Mem. de la Acad, which he has discharged his bile de Hist., torn. vi. pp. 406, 407. — on the heads of the offenders, Mendez, Typographia Espaiiola, afford valuable materials for the pp. 133, 139.