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The Relationship Between the Mendoza and the Lucena Families

Introduction
If we take into account the various possible nicknames for Lucena/Luis de Lucena, then
it appears that there was a close relationship between the clans of Mendoza and Lucena.
This started already around 1450 with the father of the protonotary Juan Ramírez de
Lucena.

We know virtually nothing about Lucena the author of a chess book. To clarify this
mystery and to form a hypothesis about the real name of this person it is definitely
necessary to study the lives of his family members in depth in order to rule out the many
assumptions that have been spread about him and his father, the protonotary Juan
Ramirez de Lucena, and even his grandfather also called Juan Ramírez de Lucena, who
has repeatedly been confused with Martin de Lucena, the Machabeo.

Members of the Mendoza family related to the Lucena family

Iñigo López de Mendoza, the Marquis of Santillana

Iñigo López de Mendoza y de la Vega (1398-1458) was the son of Diego Hurtado de
Mendoza (1367 – June 1404) and Leonor Lasso de la Vega. He was a Castilian
politician and poet who held an important position in society and literature during the
reign of John II of Castile. In 1412 Don Íñigo married a wealthy heiress Catarina Suárez
de Figueroa. Through this union he acquired great fortune and became one of the most
powerful nobles of his time. His sixth son from the marriage would one day become
Cardinal Mendoza.

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The Marquis of Santillana, godfather of Juan Ramírez de Lucena

Iñigo López de Mendoza, the Marquis of Santillana (1398-1458) was the protector of
Juan Ramírez de Lucena, the father of the protonotary Juan Ramírez de Lucena (1430-
1504). Carrete Parrondo has efficiently investigated that the father of the protonotary
converted1 to Christianity as did his mother Catalina Ramírez2 who was a native of

1
AGS, Patronato Real, leg. 28-73, fol. 992v. Cited by Carlos Carrete Parrondo (1991) Juan Ramírez de Lucena,
judeoconverso del renacimiento español, in A. Mirsky, A. Grossman, Y. Kaplan (editores), Exile and Diaspora.
Studies in the History of the Jewish People presented to Professor Haim Beinart, Jerusalén, (pp. 168 – 179), p. 171
2
AGS, Patronato Real, leg. 28-73, fol. 969v. Cited by Carlos Carrete Parrondo (1991) Juan Ramírez de Lucena,
judeoconverso del renacimiento español, in A. Mirsky, A. Grossman, Y. Kaplan (editores), Exile and Diaspora.
Studies in the History of the Jewish People presented to Professor Haim Beinart, Jerusalén, (pp. 168 – 179), p. 171

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Medinaceli3. Both lived in Soria and Juan Ramírez de Lucena, who converted to
Christianity from the Jewish religion, resided in Soria during the reigns of Juan II and
Enrique IV. The Marquis of Santillana was the godfather and protector of the landlord
of taxes Juan Ramírez de Lucena who was the father of our Ambassador Dr. Juan
Ramírez de Lucena.

Pedro González de Mendoza

Pedro González de Mendoza, Cardinal Mendoza, was the child of Iñigo López de
Mendoza (the Marquis of Santillana). He was the protector of the protonotary and
Ambassador Juan Ramírez de Lucena, who was a political collaborator in the first days
of the future monarchs in 1470. The protonotary had a brother Carlos Ramírez de
Lucena4 who was at the service of Cardinal Mendoza as a servant while very young,
both during the reign of Enrique IV and of his successors the Catholic Monarchs.

So the bishop Pedro González de Mendoza followed the tradition of his father to protect
the Lucena family. For that reason the Ambassador Juan Ramírez de Lucena was more
or less the servant of Pedro González de Mendoza when he travelled to France in 1470
to defend the economic interests of Mendoza.

As we have stated before, the Marquis of Santillana was the godfather and protector of
the landlord of taxes Juan Ramírez de Lucena who was the father of our Ambassador
Dr. Juan Ramírez de Lucena. We can learn this from the book of Vita Beata written by
the protonotary. This book was published various times5.

3
AGS, Patronato Real, leg. 28-73, fol. 990r. Cited by CARRETE PARRONDO, CARLOS (1991) Juan Ramírez
de Lucena, judeoconverso del renacimiento español, in A. Mirsky, A. Grossman, Y. Kaplan (editores), Exile and
Diaspora. Studies in the History of the Jewish People presented to Professor Haim Beinart, Jerusalén, (pp. 168 –
179), p. 171
4
Archivo General de Simancas, Registro General del Sello, fol. 66, a 27 de diciembre de 1479, Cited by
CARRETE PARRONDO, CARLOS (1991) Juan Ramírez de Lucena, judeoconverso del renacimiento
español, in A. Mirsky, A. Grossman, Y. Kaplan (editores), Exile and Diaspora. Studies in the History of
the Jewish People presented to Professor Haim Beinart, Jerusalén, (168 – 179), p. 177
5
RAMÍREZ DE LUCENA, Juan (1483) Vita Beata. Zamora, Antonio de Centenera, February 7th (Burgos, 1499,
Juan de Burgos, August 8; Burgos, 1502, Juan de Burgos, October 8; Sevilla, 1514, Juan Varela de Salamanca;
Medina del Campo, 1541, Pedro de Castro; Medina del Campo, 1543, Pedro de Castro, June 23rd)

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Diego Hurtado de Mendoza de la Vega y Luna, III Duke of the Infantry

Carlos Ramírez de Lucena had three children accused by the Holy Office: Gaspar de
Lucena, Patronila de Lucena and Juan del Castillo. As it is clear from the words of the
master Diego Fernández concerning Petronila de Lucena, who for a short time served
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza de la Vega y Luna, Duke of the Infantry (1461-1531), she
had some sympathy towards Lutheranism6:

"They took the deceased Duke of Ynfantazgo, who had sent for her to Maldonada, and after eight
days of her having gone the Duke died. His brother Lucena and an attorney and a relative for her
also went when they learned about the death of the Duke. And then the above-named Lucena told
me in Santiago that he was the gentle duke and it was believed that he was involved in general
salvation with the Lutherans. He said that his sister was a woman of high caliber and that if the
duke lived he would surely talk to her which would prove why she was of a high caliber.”

The III Duke of Infantry, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza de la Vega y Luna married María
Pimentel y Pacheco (died in 1499), daughter of Rodrigo Afonso Pimentel, IV count y I
Duke of Benavente, around 1492. They had 4 children:

1. Íñigo López de Mendoza y Pimentel, IV Duke of Infantry (1493-1566)

2. Rodrigo de Mendoza, I Marquis of Montes-Claros
3. Ana, who married Luis de la Cerda, I Marquis of Cogolludo
4. Marina, who married Diego Arias

What we know is that the book Amadis de Grecia was dedicated to the Duke of
Infantry7. This must have been in this case the III Duke de Infantado, Diego Hurtado de
Mendoza de la Vega y Luna.

6
WESTERVELD, Govert (2015). The Ambassador Juan Ramírez de Lucena, the father of the chessbook writer
Lucena.
7
ROSE, Constance Hubbard (1971). Alonso Núñez de Reinoso: The Lament of a Sixteenth-Century Exile.
Associated University Presses, Inc. Cranbury, New Jersey 08512, p. 27

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The Family tree of Carlos Ramírez de Lucena

Simuel Pesquer x unknown wife

5 children?
Juan Ramírez de Lucena x Catalina Ramírez (originating from
Medinaceli8
(Collector of revenues of the Monarchs9) (daughter of Simuel Pesquer, Jew)
Married in the year? (Catalina condemned for heresy by
the Inquisition)
6 children:
1. Juan Ramírez de 2. Fernando Ramírez de 3. Diego Ramírez de Lucena
Lucena Lucena
4. Alonso Ramírez 5. Constanza Ramírez de 6. Carlos Ramírez de Lucena


de Lucena Lucena

6. Carlos Ramírez de Lucena 6. Carlos Ramírez de Lucena

(lived in Alcalá de Henares and in Married with María de Castillo
Soria. (He was very young in the 5 children:
service of Cardinal Mendoza) Master Juan del Castillo
Married with Beatrix Martínez (processed by the Inquisition  )
3 children: Alonso del Castillo
Carlos de Lucena, el Loco (the foul) Juana del Castillo
Gaspar de Lucena (processed by the Maria del Castillo
Inquisition) Leonor del Castillo
Petronila de Lucena (processed by
the Inquisition in 1530)

8
AGS, Patronato Real, leg. 28-73, fol. 990r. Cited by CARRETE PARRONDO, CARLOS (1991). Juan Ramírez
de Lucena, judeoconverso del renacimiento español, in A. Mirsky, A. Grossman, Y. Kaplan (editores), Exile and
Diaspora. Studies in the History of the Jewish People presented to Professor Haim Beinart, Jerusalén, (pp. 168 –
179), p. 171.
9
AGS, Escribanía Mayor de Rentas, Legajo 6. Varias noticias al respecto. Cited by DIAGO HERNANDO,
MÁXIMO (1992). Judíos y judeoconversos en Soria en el siglo XV. Volumen 43, Nº. 84, (pp. 225-253), p. 239 y
250.

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Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco (1504-1575) was a son of Iñigo López de
Mendoza y Quiñones and Francisca Pacheco. He was a Spanish diplomat, historian,
poet, novelist and governor of Granada. In 1539 he was appointed ambassador at
Venice. He acted for some time as military governor of Siena, represented Spain
diplomatically at the Council of Trent, and in 1547 was nominated special
plenipotentiary at Rome, where he remained till 1554.

In the Eternal City Luis de Lucena attended the Academy of Virtuosi10, supported by
Cardinal Domenico Grimani, a great friend of Erasmus of Rotterdam. This study
formed one of the heterodox circles that were moving in Rome at that time. Another
outstanding group of intellectuals was that of Juan de Viterbo: Sepulveda, Paez de
Castro, the ambassador Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1503-1575), cousin of the Duke of
the Infantado, and with all of them Luis de Lucena11. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza was
Ambassador in Venice from 1539 to 1545. Thereafter he was Ambassador in Rome
(1547-1553). Both Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Luis de Lucena were collectors of
coins12.

Truman13 states that on 5 September 1548 a letter was published with the title Historia
de los Successos de la Guerra che la Magestad del Invitíssimo Don Carlos Emperador
de los Romanos, y Rey de España, y Alemania, hizo contra los príncipes, y Ciudades
rebelde de Alemania, y del fin que tuuo. The author was Pedro de Salazar. Since the
16th century scholars were of the opinion that Diego Hurtado de Mendoza wrote the
letter Carta del Bachiller de Arcadia, y respuesta del capitán Salazar. They had enough
reason for thinking that, because in the letter the Bachiller writes: “A mí me vinieron a
la boca todos estos disparates oyendo leer vuestro libro en casa del Embajador”.
Moreover the letter finished with the following words:

10
GÜNTHER, Hubertus (2002) Gli studi antiquari per I Accademia della Virtù. In: TUTTLE, Richard J.: Jacopo
Barozzi da Vignola, Mailand 2002, pp. 126-128
11
HERRERA CASADO, Antonio (1975). La Capilla de Luis de Lucena: una guia para conocerla y
visitarla. Aache Ediciones. Guadalajara, p. 32
12
DORMER, Diego (1680) Progresso de la historia en el reyno de Aragón y elogios de Gerónimo Zurita, su primer
cronista, del consejo del señor Rey don Felipe ...., Zaragoza, p. 239
CLEMENCÍN, Diego (1821). Memorias de la Real Academia de la Historia, Tomo Vi. Madrid, p. 424
13
RUTHERFORD, John (20001) A Forgotten Comic Gem: The ‘Carta del Bachiller de Arcadia’. In: Culture and
Society in Habsburg Spain. Edited by Nigel Griffin, Clive Griffin, Eric Sourhworth, and Colin Thompson. Tamesis,
London, pp. 49-56. Citation on p. 51

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Mi nombre hallaréis firmado aquí debajo. Si por él no me conociéredes, no curéis más dello. Basta
que si quisiéredes responder, lo podréis hacer encaminando vuestras cartas á Roma, sobreescriptas
al Bachiller, en manos del Señor Don Diego de Mendoza, nuestro Embajador, que Su Excelencia
tendrá cuidado de enviármelas. Pero tornóos á avisar que miréis por el virote y juguéis limpio y no
de llano, pues no hay por qué dejemos de ser amigos. Vuestro amigo — El Bachiller.

Emilio Cotarelo14 was one of the historians who described the biography of Feliciano de
Silva in one of his studies and thought that Diego Hurtado de Mendoza described him:

Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, que le conoció, dice también que Silva vivió siempre en su
pueblo natal. "Veis ahí a Feliciano de Silva, que en toda su vida salió más lejos, que de Ciudad-
Rodrigo a Valladolid y ha andado siempre entre Daraya y Garaya metido, é la Torre del universo,
donde tuvo encantado, según dice su libro (Don Florisel), diez y siete años a Dios Padre. Con todo
eso tuvo de comer y aun de cenar." (Carta del Bachiller de Arcadia.)

Loose translation:

Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, who knew him, also says that Silva always lived in his
hometown. "You see there Feliciano de Silva, who in all his life went not farther than from Ciudad
Rodrigo to Valladolid and has always walked between Daraya and Garaya, placed in the Tower of
the Universe, where he was delighted, according to his book Florisel), seventeen years to God the
Father. Yet he had to eat and even dine with all that”. (Letter from the Bachiller of Arcadia.)

Apparently there was some type of relationship between Felicano de Silva and Diego
Hurtado de Mendoza, as we can see from the following letter15:

CARTA DE D. DIEGO DE MENDOZA, EN NOMBRE DE MARCO AURELIO, Á FELICIANO

DE SILVA.

Marco Aurelio, oriundo de los ensalzados montes que sus siete cabezas sobre las altas cumbres de
la redondez del universo con mayor acrecentamiento y grandeza de sus profundas mares, para que
con ella sus fuerzas á los inmortales Scitas, Getas y colorados Etiopes con doblada alquimia de sus
militares guerreros el resonante eco de sus hazañas se extienda; á tí, el caballero Feliciano de
Silva, domador de las inmortales palabras, acrecentador de la castellana lengua, para que con sus
riquezas y mercaderías los retazos de sus añadiduras y menudos trapos con diversas colores y
remiendos, como calcetero, la inmortal bragueta de que las defectuosas carnes carecen henchida

14
COTARELO, Emilio (1926). Nuevas noticias biográficas de Feliciano de Silva. In: Boletin de la Real
Academia Española, Año XIII, Tomo XIII., April, CUAD. LXII, pp. 129-139. Citation on p. 130
15
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sea, desea salud, para que con ella el número de tus nunca acabadas obras se acreciente, y risa y
aliento á los leyentes para tus inmortales encarecimientos viva.

En el tiempo que el tostador y caluroso Febo las sus partes de la concavidad celestial andadas,
sudores y desalentados descansos á los hombres carnosos y pingosos apareja; cuando la
consumidora barriga y rugientes tripas, habiendo en sí recibido los ventosos ahitos de la pasada
noche, corrompiendo los aires con innumerables truenos y dislates, á los manjares de la mañana
hacen lugar, para que en los arrugados estómagos con las remanientes indigestiones se aposenten;
y cuando las chicharrantes cigarras por las picadoras cambroneras celebran sus acostumbrados
cantos; y cuando los zumbadores tábanos fatigan con sus chupadoras trompas los animales brutos,
y derramando su sangre dellas, grandes coces y patadas é innumerables temblores de cuero y de
persona producen, sonando con sus coces los pendientes estribos de las arropadas sillas ó
enjergadas albardas, causan melodía el sonido de sus cueros ó patas en las orejas de quien escucha;
y cuando las bramantes vacas con sus garañones toros, ensalzadas las banderas de sus
amosqueadoras colas, por los campos de su deleite vienen huyendo de la enemiga moscarda, y
cucadas por el aguijón, aguijan, y aguijadas por el cuco, cucan; estando yo en las escuridades de
mi rígido aposento, haciendo las lumbrosas ventanas matizadas vislumbres con sus medio cerradas
ventanillas á manera de saetera, porque los altera la saetera produce aquella luz que por el Maestro
de la luz le fué dada, y la ventanilla con la fuerza de la fuerza del que la cierra está en su voluntad
proporcionada la cantidad de luz, fueras ende si las pungidas y jacintadas orinas, producidas por el
incontinente meador por falta de vidriosos orinales en sus tornantes goznes, comunicadas con el
polvo que las perezosas mozas por la ventana de su basura lanzan con aljofaradas gotas, á manera
de argamasa, se endurecen; allí me venían varios pensamientos con la solenidad de los bullidores
ratones, que, con el desatino de las roncas voces y pesados pantuflazos, pierden el tino de las
cavernas donde primero salieron; allí las importunas moscas; allí los rebuznadores borricos; allí las
saltadoras pulgas, las amoretadas chinches, los tardos y prolongados piojos, las escaleradas
cucarachas, las penosas arañas y los negros escarabajos me ocurrían, venciendo su música armonía
con su acordado artificio los puntos de los puntos de las hinchadas trompetas y tiznados herreros.

Bien que por la diferencia de sus movimientos conociese yo el desvarío de sus calidades, decía yo
entonces conmigo mismo: — ¡Oh inmortales dioses! ¡Oh soberano ayuntamiento de cosas, para
que con su grandeza la grandeza vuestra por parte de tan pequeñas cosas comunicada nos fuese!
¿Por qué consintió vuestra deidad que de mí en ellos,, de ellos en mí, como de mí á mí para con
ellos mis pensamientos los encerrasen? ¡Oh bienaventurada variedad que tales cuidados producir
pudiste! ¡Oh bienaventurados pantuflazos, que con vuestras duras suelas á los tales animales
acertar pudísteis! ¡Oh bienaventurada sala donde tales sabandijas se conciben! ¡Oh
bienaventuradas peticiones, que los Procuradores de sus audiencias apacientan con sus desvariadas
respuestas fuera de los espesos polvos de Valladolid, y bienaventurado tú, que pudiendo hacer
libro hiciste razonamiento, y de razonamiento hiciste Apocalipsi, como los correosos agujeteros,
que si la blanda agujeta, con estrecheza de su forma angosta se les representa para los deleznables
cerraderos de las hambrientas bolsas, á manera de tomiza las rodean! ¡ Ay de mí, que no hay en mí
tal industria de sentimiento para sentir la industria de tu industria con la falta de mi falta, que com
prendiese la sobra de tu habilidad, la cual si, por tus innumerables é infinitas razones, comunicada
me fuese, quedaría yo como aquéllos que para la salud de las importunas tercianas y locas y
soñolientas modorras y contagiosas garganterías y triparías y landres el ingenio de su doctrina en
los generales estudios apacientan; y si no como éstos, ya que no alcanzando á éstos, más corto que
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almireces las inmortales moradas del dios Eolo, con quien confinan, hasta las bóvedas de sus
promontorios atruenan. Y ya que mi ventura la tal alteza me negase, ¿quién me quitaría que con
los corredores caballos y cargadas acémilas y tardos borricos la administración de las medicinas
participada por mí no fuese, de suerte que si no médico, boticario; si no boticario, albéitar, por la
comunicación de las ensalzadas ondas y furiosos vientos de tal estilo, á mí, tu menor siervo, tal
beneficio se concediese, en cuya fee á manera de cherrion en pequeño espacio la carga de las
sufridoras mulas en mis hombros con las ruedas de tus avisos tiraría?

Y ansí acabo comunicándote aquella paz que tú á los que tus inmortales cláusulas con su
repugnancia tarda comunicas, para que en tí con ellos y ellos sin ellos hagan más remontado
principio á mayores ayuntamientos de razones.

Marco Aurelio, á tí, Feliciano, salud y paciencia para los que leen tus obras, una siesta, estando yo
en mi aposento pensando en las sabandijas del verano, tomé dellas ocasión para desear poder
imitar en algo tu estilo.-— Vale.

Juan Hurtado de Mendoza

Alonso Núñez de Reinoso stated in his book16 a letter to Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, III
Señor de Fresno de Torote, a relative of the famed Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza and
author of El buen plazar trobado en treze discates in 1550. In this letter Núñez de
Reinoso reveals that he had once written a play and dedicated it to the Duque del
Infantado, the titular head of the Mendoza clan17.

When Diego Hurtado de Mendoza left for Rome in 1547, his successor Juan Hurtado de
Mendoza had served as his assistant for a year and a half. He was appointed
Ambassador at Venice by Charles V and remained in his post until 1552 when he was
replaced by Francisco de Toledo and later by Francisco de Vargas.

The existence of friendship between Feliciano de Silva, author of most of the

continuations of Amadís de Gaula as well as the Segunda comedia de Celestina, and
Alonso Núñez de Reinoso, author of the Byzantine novel La historia de los amores de
Clareo y Florísea y las tristezas y trabajos de la sin ventura Isea (Venice, 24 January
1552), is one of the relatively few facts we know about the life of either writer.

16
ARIBAU, Buenaventura Carlos (1850) Biblioteca de Autores Españoles, Tomo Tercero. Novelistas
anteriores a Cervantes. Madrid, p. 432
17
ALONSO, Dámaso (1957) Un poeta madrileñista, latinista y francesista en la mitad del siglo XVI: D. Juan
Hurtado de Mendoza. In:Boletín de la Real Academia Española, XXXVII, pp. 213-298

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Family Tree of some Members of the Mendoza clan

Iñigo López de Catarina

Mendoza (Marquis Suárez de
de Santillana) Figueroa

Leonor Elvira de
de Quiñones Brianda
Juan Iñigo López Diego Hurtado de de Luna y
Luján
Hurtado de de Mendoza Mendoza (1417-1479) Mendoza
Mendoza (1419-1479) Pedro González I Duke of Infantry
de Mendoza
(Gran Cardenal)

María del
Condelmario
Francisca Iñigo López de Mendoza María
Juan Hurtado de Iñigo López Pacheco y Luna (1438-1500) de
Mendoza (II Señor de Mendoza II Duke of Infantry Luna
de Fresno del Torote) (1442-1525)

Nufia de
Vozmediano María
Pimentel
Juan Hurtado de Mendoza Diego Hurtado de y Pacheco
(1497-1550?) (III Señor Mendoza (1461-1531)
de Fresno del Torote) III Duke of Infantry
Diego Hurtado de
Mendoza y Pacheco
(1504-1579)

Inés de
Herrera

Juan Hurtado de Mendoza Iñigo López de

(1520?-1580?) (IV Señor Mendoza (1493-1560)
de Fresno del Torote) IV Duke of Infantry

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Although Silva makes no mention of Núñez in his writings, the latter frequently refers
to Silva in his volume of poems published along with Clareo y Florisea18.

Iñigo López de Mendoza y Pimentel, IV Duke of the Infantry

In a letter addressed to Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, Núñez de Reinoso reveals that he
had once written a play and contemplated dedicating it to the Duke of Infantry, the
titular head of the Mendoza clan. Was it the IV Duke of the Infantry, Iñigo López de
Mendoza y Pimentel (1493-1566)?

Conclusion
We observe from this study that Juan Ramírez de Lucena, father of the protonotary had
strong friendship with Iñigo López de Mendoza, the Marquis of Santillana. The
friendship of this clan was continued by Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza, who
was the protector of Carlos Ramírez de Lucena and the protonotary Juan Ramírez de
Lucena. Thereafter we observe that the first Duke of Infantry, son of the Marquis de
Santillana, had a good relationship with Petronila de Lucena, the daughter of Carlos
Ramírez de Mendoza.

Luis de Lucena had strong friendship with Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco and
Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, descendants of the Marquis de Santillana. Therefore we take
as hypothesis that Luis de Lucena belonged to this Lucena family.

18
CRAVENS, Sydney Paul (1978) The “Insula deleitosa” Tale in Alonso Núñez de Reinoso’s”: A
Tribute to Feliciano de Silva. In: Hispanófila, Nº. 64, pp. 1-6. Citation on p. 1

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