y's depot of provisions at
Cerignola, took a strong position, threw up hasty field works, and
strengthened them with a species of wire entanglements. The French made
a headlong front attack, were repulsed, assailed in flank, and routed.
The later operations on the Garigliano were very similar, and led to the
total expulsion of the French from Naples. Gonzalo remained as governor
of Naples till 1507. But he had become too great not to arouse the
jealousy of such a typical king of the Renaissance as Ferdinand the
Catholic. The death of the queen in 1504 had deprived him of a friend,
and it must be allowed that he was profuse in rewarding his captains and
his soldiers out of the public treasury. Ferdinand loaded him with
titles and fine words, but recalled him so soon as he could, and left
him unemployed till his death on the 2nd of December 1515.

The Great Captain is sometimes spoken of as the first of modern
generals. The expression is uncritical, for modern generalship arose
from many sides, but he was emphatically a general. There is much in his
methods which bears a curious likeness to those of the duke of
Wellington; Barletta, for instance, has a distinct resemblance to the
Torres Vedras campaign, and the battle on the Garigliano to Assaye. As
an organizer he founded the Spanish infantry of the 16th and 17th
centuries, and he gave the best proof of his influence by forming a
school of officers. The best generals of Charles V. were either the
pupils of the Great Captain or were trained by them.

There is no life of Gonzalo de Cordoba written by a scholar who was
also a good judge of war. The dull _Cronica del Gran Capitan_ gives
the bare events of his campaigns rather wearisomely but fully. Paulus
Govius, _Vitae illustrium virorum_, translated by Domenichi (Florence,
1550), is elegant and very readable. Don Jose Quintana includes him in
his _Espanoles celebres_ (_Rivadeneyra Biblioteca de autores
espanoles_, vol. xix., Madrid, 1846-1880); and Prescott collected the
authorities, and made good use of them in his _Ferdinand and
Isabella_. See also P. du Poncet, _Histoire de Gonsalve de Cordoue_
(Paris, 1714). The _Gonsalve de Cordoue, ou Grenade reconquise_ of
Florian (Paris, 1791) is a romance. (D. H.)

CORDOBA, a large central province of the Argentine Republic, bounded N.
by Santiago del Estero, E. by Santa Fe, S. by Buenos Aires and La Pampa,
W. by San Luis and Rioja, and N.W. by Ca