Vingt-quatre ans. According to this passage

the action would begin in 1516, since Granada was taken in 1492. This does not agrée with the historical fact mentioned p.

10, 1. 12 : " Is not Francis I this very day a prisoner in our Madrid?" — aneventwhich took place in 1525-1526. We must suppose the author meant to write thirty~lo\xr years instead of twent y-four.

5. 24. Cf. with the following description translated from " The Story of the Abencerrage and the Beautiful Jarifa," Antonio de Villegas :

' ' There was in Granada a f amily of Knights, called the Abencerrages, who were the flower of the whole kingdom. For by the élégance of their persons, their gracefulness, their disposition and great spirit, they were superior to ail others. ,,