Copyright, 1927, by the Instituto de las Españas * Distributors EXCHANGIE In the United States: Columbia University Press, New York City, U. S. A. In Spanish speaking countries: La Lectura, Recoletos 25, Madrid, Spain Printed in the U. S. A. by PREFACE At the suggestion of Professor Federico de Onís of Columbia University I began an investigation of the influence of the Ciceronian style on the Spanish prose of the Golden Age. Several months' research convinced me that this influence could be traced most easily in the works of Fr. Luis de Granada. In developing this subject I have not attempted to treat all the aspects of Granada's language and style. I have attempted only to show to what extent and in what way he applied the Ciceronian style to the Spanish language. In preparing this study I have used the following editions of the treatise, Ad Herennium, and of the works of Cicero, Quintilian and Fr. Luis de Granada: Anon., Incerti auctoris de ratione dicendi ad C. Herennium libri IV, von F. Marx, Leipzig, 1894. Cicero, Opera, Oxoni e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1783. Quintilian, Institutionis oratoriae libri duodecim, 2 vols., Lipsiae, 1896-1903. Fr. Luis de Granada, Obras, edición crítica y completa por Fr. Justo Cuervo, 14 vols., Madrid, 1906. Libri sex ecclesiasticae rhetoricae; sive de ratione concionandi; curante Ioh. Baptista Munnozio, Valentiae, 1768. |