[Footnote 81: Castil-Blaze, p. 222. Arnold (Mozart's Geist, p. 298) says that the true source is a political romance by a Portuguese Jesuit, entitled "Vita et mors sceleratissimi principis Domini Joannis."]
[Footnote 82: Schack, Gesch. der dram. Litt. u. Kunst in Spanien, II., p. 552. L. Schmidt, Die vier bedeut Dramatiker der Spanier, p. 10. Tellez died in 1648, seventy-eight years old; in 1621 he had already written three hundred comedies.]
[Footnote 83: An epitome of the piece, published in Eugenio da Ochoa's Tesoro del Teatro Espaniol (Paris, 1838, IV., p. 73), was given by Cailhava, II., p. 179. Kahlert and Castil-Blaze. It is now accessible in the translations of C. A. Dohrn (Spanische Dramen, I., p. 1) and L. Braunfels (Dramen aus u. n. d. Span., I., p. 1).]
[Footnote 84: The part of Tisbea is very charmingly treated; Byron has made use of this part of the subject.]
[Footnote 85: When Don Juan swears to marry Aminta, he says, with ambiguous mockery:--]
"Wird mein Wort je im geringsten Falsch befunden--nun so mag mich Eine Leichenhrnd vernichten."]
[Footnote 86: Schack (II., p. 569), quoting from a license to publish Tirso's works, says that they contain nothing which could offend good manners, and that they present admirable examples to youth.]
[Footnote 88: Riccoboni, Hist. du. Théätre Ital., I., p. 47.]
[Footnote 89: Castil-Blaze (p. 263) has a list of the editions.]
[Footnote 90: Goldoni, Mém., I., p. 163. Eximeno, L'Orig. d. Musica, p. 430.]
[Footnote 91: Cailhava, in an analysis of the Convitato (II., p. 186), remarks that he has observed trifling alterations in different performances, but that in essentials the piece is always the same. A more detailed analysis of a later piece, differing somewhat in detail, is given by Castil-Blaze (I., p. 192).]
[Footnote 92: Castil-Blaze's piece omits this adventure, and begins with Donna Anna and the murder of the Commendatore.]
[Footnote 93: Castil-Blaze's sketch inserts the peasant wedding here.]
[Footnote 94: This piece alone was in writing, all the rest was improvised.]
[Footnote 96: Dictionnaire des Théätres de Paris, II., p. 539.]
[Footnote 97: The French pieces are enumerated in the Dictionnaire des Théätres de Paris, II., p. 540.]