Excerpt from Leila: Or, the Siege of Granada and Calderon, the Courtier IT was the summer of the year 1491 and the armies of Ferdinand and Isabel invested the city of Granada. The night was not far advanced; and the moon which broke through the transparent air of Andalusia, shone calmly over the immense and murmuring encampment of the Spanish foe and touched with a hazy light the snow capped summits of the Sierra Nevada contrasting the ver dure and luxuriance which no devastation of man could utterly sweep from the beautiful vale below. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.