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Weiss 2013:216: “Extensive commentary on the first nine of the eighteen stanzas of this polemical political poem …, written in defence of the poem’s doctrinal legitimacy. Principal authorities include the Bible, St Jerome, and St Augustine’s City of God …. Díaz de Toledo also draws on other classical sources commonly found in contemporary vernacular writing (Aristotle, Sallust, Orosius, Vegetius, Boethius, et al.), as well as his own glosses on Santillana’s Proverbios … and his Diálogo sobre la muerte del marqués de Santillana. The prologue provides biblical authority for the use of verse, and presents Gómez Manrique as a worthy successor to Fernán Pérez de Guzmán and Santillana.’’