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- VENUS AND ADONIS 25-
who
in
the
course
of his
diplomatic occupations
visited
both
Don
Dieco
Italy
and England
during
the
first
half
of
the
sixteenth
^""d^^
century,
produced
in
lyy^
a
Spanish
poem
called
Fdbula
de
'
Adonis^ in
eight-lined
stanzas,
which enjoyed wide popularity
in the
peninsula.
Don
Diego
narrated
the
legend
after the
manner
of
Dolce.
Other
Spanish
poets
subsequently repeated
Mendoza's
experiment.
In
the
miscellaneous
collection
of
poetry, the
Ca?icionero
jeneral
of
Amberes, which appeared
in
I
^S7y there
figured
an
attractive
poem
on
the
subject
in
short
metre.
A
writer
of
repute,
Juan
de
la
Cueva
(lyyo-ido?),
Juan
de
b
penned
in
eighteen
<
ottavas
reales
'
the Llanto
de
Venus
en
la
^^^"'^^
muerte
de
Adonis^
^
and
there
is
a
stilted
sonnet
by Lope
de
Vega's
friend
Juan
de
Arguijo
(d.
1(^29),
entitled
Venus
en
la
muerte
de
Adonis.
Finally,
in
the
last
decade
of
the
century, the
theme
was elaborately
recast
by
a
more
dis-
tinguished pen.
Lope
de Vega's tragedy
entitled
Adonis
y
Lope
de
Venus^
which
greatly
developed
the ancient legend,
is
the
most
^^^^'
notable
adaptation
of
the
story
in
the literature of
Spain."-
Thus
a
cursory survey
of the literature of the
European
Family
like-
Renaissance shows
not
merely
that the
story
of
Venus and
"^^11"^°"^
Adonis
had already
travelled
far
and wide before
it
engaged
sance
poems.
Shakespeare's
attention,
but
that
it
was
still
enjoying
activelife
abroad
while he was
working upon
it.
The
strong
family resemblance which
exists
among
the
component
parts
of
this
many-languaged Adonic
literature
is
mainly due
to
the
common
sources
in
classical
poetry.
Only
wherethere recur in
two
or
more poems
details or reflections
or
* Obras
poeticaij
Seville,
1582.
^ Cf. Observaciones
preliminares, ix-xxv,
before
Lope's tragedy Adonis
y
Venus in
Obras
de
Lope
de
Vega
pubUcadas
for
la
Real
Academta
Espanola^
Tomo
vi,
Madrid, \%<^6.
Several narrative
poems
on
the
same
subject
appeared
in
Spain
during the seventeenth century.
Cf. Alonso de
Batres'
Idbula
de
Adonis yVenus
^
and
Juan
de
Moncayo
y Gurrea's
Venus
y Adonis {^2iTzgoz2i, i^^P}*D
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