In «Pero Pérez the Priest and His Comment on Tirant lo Blanch», reproduced infra, I have suggested that the priest's opinions are not necessarily those of Cervantes.
Sydney Cravens has identified the probable source of Cervantes' quotation in words of Darinel in Part IV of Florisel de Niquea («Feliciano de Silva and his Romances of Chivalry in Don Quijote», Inti, No. 7 [Spring, 19781, 28-34). However, Constance Rose, without specifying a specific passage as Cravens does, says it is taken from his Segunda Celestina (Alonso Núñez de Reinoso, p. 29, n. 20).
Amadis de Gaule and its Influence on Elizabethan Literature, p. 6.
See «De la Academia de los Humildes de Villamanta», quoted by Avalle-Arce, p. 37, n. 5, and the «Carta del Bachiller de Arcadia», in Sales españolas, ed. A. Paz y Melia, 2nd ed., BAE, 176 (Madrid: Atlas, 1964), p. 35.
Cancionero del poeta George de Montemayor, ed. Ángel González Palencia, Sociedad de Bibliófilos Españoles, 2.ª época, 9 (Madrid, 1932), pp. 443-47.
Books of the Brave, p. 115.
Thomas, pp. 78-79. For the operatic adaptations of Silva's works, particularly Amadís de Grecia, see Hilkert Weddige, pp. 286-308; the best-known of the operatic composers is Handel.
Nicolás Antonio attributed to him part of the Espejo de príncipes (I, 365); Gayangos states that he was generally considered to be the author of Don Silves de la Selva («Discurso preliminar», p. xxxvi).
Even his name needed to be definitely established, by Narciso Alonso Cortés, «Montalvo, el del Amadís, RHi, 71, Part I (1933), 434-42. No biographical information has come to light since this article was published.
Thus the comments of Armando Durán, pp. 127-39 and elsewhere.