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See also:MENA, JUAN DE (1411–1456) , See also:Spanish poet, was See also:born at See also:Cordova in 1411. In his twenty-See also:fourth See also:year he matriculated at the university of See also:Salamanca, and studied later at See also:Rome. His scholarship obtained for him the See also:post of Latin secretary at the See also:court of Castille; subsequently he became historiographer to See also:John II. and See also:magistrate at C6rdova. According to the Epicedio of Valerio Francisco Romero, Mena died from natural causes in 1456; popular tradition, however, ascribes his See also:death to a fall from his See also:mule. Though nominally the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's chronicler, Mena had no See also:share in the Cr6nica de See also:Don Juan II.; the statement that he wrote the first See also:act of the See also:Celestina (q.v.) is rejected; but three See also:authentic specimens of his cumbrous See also:prose exist in the commentary to his dull poem entitled La See also:Coronation or Calamacileos, in the Iliada en See also:romance (an abridged version of See also:Homer), and in the unpublished Memorias de algunos linajes antiguas a nobles de Castilla. He is conjectured to be the author of the satirical Coplas de la panadera; but, apart from the fact that these verses are ascribed by Argote de See also:Molina to Inigo Ortiz de Zuiiiga,, they are See also:instinct with a See also:tart See also:humour of which Mena was destitute. His See also:principal See also:work is his allegorical poem, El Laberinto de See also:Fortuna, dedicated to John II.; in the See also:oldest See also:manuscripts it consists of 297 stanzas, but three more stanzas were added to it later, and hence the alternative, popular See also:title of See also:Las Trezientas. The Laberinto is modelled on See also:Dante, and further contains reminiscences of the See also:Roman de la See also:rose, as well as episodes borrowed from See also:Virgil and See also:Lucan. It is marred by excessive emphasis and pedantic diction, and the arte See also:mayor measure in which it is written is monotonous; but many octaves are of such excellence that the ante mayor See also:metre continued in See also:fashion for nearly a
See also:century. The poem, as a whole, is tedious; yet its dignified expression of patriotic spirit has won the admiration of Spaniards from Cervantes' See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to our own.
A See also:critical edition of the Laberinto has been issued by R. Foulche-Delbosc (See also:Macon, 1904).
End of Article: MENA, JUAN DE (1411–1456)
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