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    POLITICAL COMMENTARY: HERNAN NUNEZ'S GLOSA A ‘LAS TRESCIENTAS* HERNAN NONE2’s long and influential commentary om Juan de Mena’s epic vision, Las vescientas, now better known as the Laberinto de Fortune (1444), wes fist printed in Seville in 1499. A second, substantially revised, edition Gaime our in 1505 in Granada, the city where it was originally composed under the patronage of Santillana’s grandson, fhigo Lopez de Mendoza, the seoond count of Tendilla. These bare facts immediately invite questions about the Political relationship between poem and comment the Laberinto defends the policies of royal absol advanced by Juan Il and his all-powerful Const the process, Mena calls for an end to aristo tion into a concerted campaign against Granada, By the {hat Mena's general aspirations had been achieved. A working ‘compromise between the aristocracy and monarchy had been imposed; Granade bed bees Proken as a politcal and military power; and the forcible conversion of the Gfanadan mudejares in 499 signaled the beginning ofthe endfor eam as og offical religion. In allthis, Tendila was one of the most powerful reptesen- tatives of the Catholic Monarchs, the first Christian governor of the recently

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