NOTES
- Alberto del Monte, Itinerario de la novela picaresca española (Barcelona: Lumen, 1971), 58–61.
- Alonso Zamora Vicente, Presencia de los clásicos (Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe, 1951), 78.
- The numbers given refer to the corresponding volume and page in the María Soledad Carrasco Urgoiti edition. For details see below, note 5.
- Vicente Espinel, Diversas rimas, ed. Dorothy Clotelle Clark (New York: Hispanic Institute, 1956) and ed. Alberto Navarro González and Pilar González Velasco (Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1980). All page references to Espinel's poetry are to the latter edition.
- Vicente Espinel, Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón, ed. Samuel Gili Gaya, Clásicos Castellanos, 2 vols (Madrid: Espasa Calpe 1922–25; re-edited 1951) and ed. María Soledad Carrasco Urgoiti (Madrid: Castalia, 1972), 2 vols. All volume and page references to Espinel's prose work are to the latter edition.
- George Haley, Vicente Espinel and ‘Marcos de Obregón’. A Life and its Literary Representation (Providence, Rhode Island: Brown U.P., 1959).
- Juan Pérez de Guzmán, ‘Vicente Espinel y su obra’, an Introduction to his edition of Vicente Espinel, Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón (Barcelona: Artes y Letras, 1881).
- Diego Vázquez Otero, Vida de Vicente Martínez Espinel (Málaga: Diputación Provincial, 1948).
- Haley, op. cit., 197.
- Haley, op. cit., 206.
- Haley, op. cit., 204.
- Haley, op. cit., 227.
- Epistolario de Lope de Vega Carpio, ed. Agustín González de Amezúa (Madrid: Real Academia Española, 1941), Vol. III, 324.