Spanish sample of Mezzofanti's handwriting

Another language regarding which, although it has more than once been alluded to, few testimonies have as yet been brought forward, is Spanish. I shall content myself, nevertheless, with the evidence of a single Spaniard, which, brief as it is, leaves nothing to be desired. "I can assert of his Eminence," writes Father Diego Burrueco, a Trinitarian of Zamora, who knew the Cardinal during many of these years, " that he spoke our Spanish like a native of Castile. He could converse in the Andalusian dialect with Andalusians ; he was able, also, to distinguish the Catalonian dialect from that of Valencia