ABSTRACT
The Galician lyric is revealed to us mainly through the Vatican and Colocci-Brancuti collections. Although several are much later then the reign of Juan II, yet, since they all contain similar works and form a natural sequence, there is no serious objection to grouping them together. Enrique de Aragon, wrongly called Marquis of Villena, was a descendant of the royal line of Aragon, and grandson of Enrique II of Castile. During the reigns of Juan II and Enrique IV he played the important part to which birth and talents entitled him. He was often counted among the opponents of the powerful favorite, Alvaro de Luna. A work of greater intrinsic interest, recalling that of Sem Tob in its moral and didactic scope, is the Centiloquio or Proverbios, offered to Prince Enrique, son of Juan II, and first printed about 1490. Juan de Mena was the real leader of the choir of poets of this period.
