“ SANTILLANA, INIGO LOPEZ DE MENDOZA, Marquis of (1398–1458) , Castilian poet, was born at Carrion de los Condes in Old Castile on the 19th of August 1398. His father, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, grand admiral of Castile, having died in 1405, the boy was educated under the eye of his mother, Dona Leonor de la Vega, a woman of great strength of character. From his eighteenth year onwards he became an increasingly prominent figure at the court of Juan II. of Castile, distinguishing himself in both civil and military service ”

“ He was much more successful in the serranilla and vagueira-highland pastorals after the Provengal manner. His rhymed collection of Proverbios de gloriosa doctrina é fructuosa ensenanza was prepared for the use of Don Enrique, the heir-apparent. ”