Cubí Soler, Mariano. Extractos de los Más Célebres
Escritores y Poetas Españoles. Baltimore, 1822.
From the collection of the George Peabody Library
Collection number: 860.8 S146 1822
Text for Station 5 in Don Quixote Exhibit
Mr. Wallis' interest in Spanish language and literature began at St.
Mary's. The college had hired Mariano Cubí y Soler as a Spanish
teacher in
the 1820s, and there seems to be little doubt that when Severn attended St.
Mary's some years later, he used Cubí y Soler's anthology of Spanish
literature to perfect his knowledge of Spanish classics. Cubí y
Soler's
Extractos de los Más Célebres Escritores y Poetas
Españoles was first
printed in Baltimore in 1822, specifically to
be used as the standard
textbook by St. Mary's students. Severn was able to read selections from
Don Quixote in the original Spanish.
