Menéndez Pelayo ante la maurofilia literaria del siglo XVI

Federico de Onís, of whom I was a student when I began my investigations into the matter we are dealing with today, wrote in conclusion of an essay on Menéndez Pelayo, intended to make Spanish literature known in the United States: «It is possible that his works they are not perfect; But it is difficult for there to be anyone who begins to work on any small or large issue of Spanish literature without finding that before him Menéndez y Pelayo was the one who first broke through that field and described it along lines that are almost always definitive.