GIL POLO, GASPAR 0153o-159i), Spanish novelist and poet, was born at Valencia. He finds a place in the history of the novel as the author of La Diana enamorada, a continuation of Montemayor's Diana, and perhaps the most successful continua tion ever written by another hand. One of the most agreeable of Spanish pastorals, it was imitated by Cervantes in the Canto de Caliope, and was translated into English, French, German and Latin. The English version of Bartholomew Young, published in 1598 but current in manuscript 15 years earlier, is said to have suggested the Felismena episode in the Two Gentlemen of Verona; the Latin version of Caspar Barth, entitled Erotodidas calus (Hanover, 1625), is a performance of uncommon merit as well as a bibliographical curiosity.