“ A Spanish author, who flourished in the latter part of the fifteenth century. To him is due the first Spanish version now extant of the famous romance of Amadis. Utilizing the material of previous writers, he prepared his version after 1492. The greater part of his work may have been mere translation from the Portuguese, but he also added matter of his own. In his own composition, the Sergas de Esplandian, he tells of Amadis's son. ”