1
I am adopting the spelling and accentuation preferred by Professor R. Aramon i Serra, Pere Bohigas and most other modern Catalan scholars, and which has been accepted by the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.
2
From Herrera's commentary on the works of Garcilaso.
3
Antología de poetas líricos castellanos, XIII (Madrid 1908), 299.
4
March's poetry will be quoted from the Bohigas edition of Poesies (Barcelona 1952).
5
This and other quotations from Boscán are from Obras completas (Madrid 1944).
6
Many commentators have mentioned the influence of Ausiàs March on Golden Age poets; for Garcilaso, see Rafael Lapesa, La trayectoria poética de Garcilaso (Madrid 1948); for Gutierre de Cetina, see Alfred Miles Withers, The Source of the Poetry of Gutierre de Cetina (Philadelphia 1923).
7
De consolatione philosophiae.
8
This idea is also found in March's Cant XV. The sea imagery in Sonnet 86 also appears frequently in March.
9
Relaciones entre la literatura renacentista castellana y la catalana en la Edad media, in Escorial, II (1941), 45.
10
Antología de poetas líricos castellanos, 305.