Abstract
D IEGO de San Pedro's two religious poems, Las siete angustias de Nuestra Sefiora and La pasi6n trovada, have been very little studied, and no writer has yet noticed that there are several stanzas common to each poem.1 The purpose of the present paper is to assess the significance of these coincident verses and, in the light of this and other evidence, to review the dating and chronology of a part of San Pedro's work. When Samuel Gili y Gaya edited San Pedro's works in 19502 he did not reprint the Pasi6n on the grounds that "esta obra de coplero vulgar carece de m6ritos literarios" (p. xxxv); but he adds that its defects may be attributed to the very bad state of the available text. He is referring to the "anonymous" text printed by Justo de Sancha in 1872,3 a much-emended version of an eight-
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