Legends, Tales and Poems by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
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[Footnote 5: Madrid. See p. 80, note 2.] [Footnote 6: Pero Botero. See vocabulary.] [Footnote 7: Pater Noster. See p. 33, note 1.] [Footnote 8: El duque de Alcalá. In 1558 Philip II bestowed this title upon D. Pedro Afán o Enríquez de Ribera y Portocarrero, second Marquis of Tarifa, sixth Count of los Molares, and bearer of other titles as well. He was made viceroy of Naples in 1559, at about the age of fifty, and died some dozen years later. His wife was Doña Leonor Ponce de Leon, by whom he had no children. This is probably the duke referred to here, if we presume that the author had some definite duke in mind. The beautiful family mansion, known as _la Casa de Pílatos_, is still standing, a mixture of Gothic, Moorish, and Renaissance designs.] [Footnote 9: San Pedro. The church of San Pedro, a Gothic structure of the fourteenth century, built on the site of a mosque, is situated near the modern market and not far from the University. The little square in front of the church bears the same name.] [Footnote 10: callejón de las Dueñas. A short street called to-day _Calle de Gerona_. It connects the Plaza del Espiritu Santo and that of Sta. Catalina. This street received its name from the Cistercian nuns whose convent, destroyed in the revolution of 1868, was situated here.] [Footnote 11: las del de Medinasidonia= 'those of the (Duke) of |
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