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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XIII. WAR OF GRANADA. -SURRENDER OF VELEZ MALAGA-SIEGE AND CONQUEST OF MALAGA. 1487. Narrow Escape of Ferdinand before Velez. - Malaga invested by Sea and Land. -Brilliant Spectacle-The Queen visits the Camp- Attempt to assassinate the Sovereigns. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XIII. WAR OF GRANADA. -SURRENDER OF VELEZ MALAGA-SIEGE AND CONQUEST OF MALAGA. 1487. Narrow Escape of Ferdinand before Velez. - Malaga invested by Sea and Land. -Brilliant Spectacle-The Queen visits the Camp- Attempt to assassinate the Sovereigns. - Distress and Resolution of the besieged. - Enthusiasm of the Christians. - Outworks carried by them. - Proposals for Surrender. - Haughty Demeanor of Ferdinand- Malaga surrenders at Discretion. - Cruel Policy of the Victors. Before commencing operations against Malaga, it was thought expedient by the Spanish council of war to obtain possession of Velez Malaga, situated about five leagues distant from the former. This strong town stood along the southern extremity of a range of mountains that extend to Granada. Its position afforded an easy communication with that capital, and obvious means of annoyance to an enemy interposed between itself and the adjacent city of Malaga. The reduction of this place, therefore, became the first object of the campaign. The forces assembled at Cordova, consisting of the levies of the Andalusian cities principally, of the retainers of the great nobility, and of the well- appointed chivalry which thronged from all quarters of the kingdom, amounted on this occasion, totwelve thousand horse and forty thousand foot', a number, which sufficiently attests the unslackened ardor of the nation in the prosecution of the war. On the 7th of April, KingFerdinand, putting himself at the head of this formidable host, quitted the fair city of Cordova amid the cheering acclamations of its inhabitants, although these were somewhat damped by the ominous occurrence of an earthquake, which demolished a part of the royal residence, among other Books, History~~General, History-of-the-Reign-of-Ferdinand-and-Isabella-the-Catholic~~William-Hickling-Prescott, 999999999, History Of The Reign Of Ferdinand And Isabella The Catholic (Volume 2), William Hickling Prescott, 021722640X, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217226400

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1870. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX. CASTILIAN LITERATURE. -- ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY. -- LYRICAL POETRY THE DRAMA. This Reign an Epoch in Polite Letters. -- Romances of Chivalry.-- Ballads or Romances. -- Moorish Minstrelsy.-- Cancionero General. -- Its Literary Value.-- Rise of the Spanish Diama. -- Criticism on Celestina.-- Encina. -- Naharro. -- Low Condition of the Stage. -- National Spirit of the Literature of this Epoch. Ornamental or polite literature, which, emanating from the taste and sensibility of a nation, readily exhibits its various fluctuations of fashion and feeling, was stamped in Spain with the dis''tinguishing characteristics of this revolutionary age. The Provencal, which reached such high perfection in Catalonia, and subsequently in Aragon, as noticed in an introductory chapter,1 expired with the union of this monarchy with Castile, and the dialect ceased to be applied to literary purposes altogether, after the Castilian became the language of the court in the united kingdoms. The poetry of Castile, which throughout the present reign continued to breathe the same patriotic spirit, and to. exh''-bit the same national peculiarities that had dis 1 Eicnnorn, CJeschicnte der Kul- pp. 129, 130. -- See also the contur und Litteratur der Neueren elusion of the Introduction, Sec. 3, Europa, (fiottingen, 17U6 - 1811,) of this History. tinguished it from the time of the Cid, submitted soon after Ferdinand''s death to the influence of the more polished Tuscan, and henceforth, losing somewhat of its distinctive physiognomy, assumed many of the prevalent features of continental literature. Thus the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella becomes an epoch as memorable in literary, as in civil history. The most copious vein of fancy, in that day, was turned in the direction of the prose ro... William Hickling Prescott, Books, History, History Of The Reign Of Ferdinand And Isabella The Catholic (volume 2) Books>History, General Books LLC<

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