GAMES, Gliders. Dies de, a Spanish chronicler and soldier of the first half of the 15th century, attached to the person of Pero Nifio, Count de Buelna (1379-1453). His work which constitutes an interesting and faithful account of the life of Pero Nifio from his early boyhood days is one of the most curious in any language. It is simple in form and lan guage and direct in manner and aim. It is, therefore, of considerable value for the his torical point of view. Of the life of Games himself nothing is known except what he him self personally and incidentally reveals in the course of the He seems to have followed his master in all his wars and to have struck many a stout blow for him and his cause. So vivid and faithful are his pictures of his young master that they show how the young sons of noble families lived and acted in that age; what their interests were and how they proceeded to satisfy them. Games boasts that he was Pero Niiio's standard-bearer on many an occasion when the battle raged fiercely.
But he was never more truly his standard bearer in the ardor of combat than in the in timacy of his personal description of his pa tron in his delightful and chatty 'Chronicle' ('CrOnica de Don Pero Nifio'). This work, which lay long in manuscript, appears to have been used by subsequent chroniclers and his torians and to have been cited frequently from early times, as one of the most important docu ments relating to the history of the reign of Henry III. It was finally edited and consider ably abridged by Eugenio de Llaguno Amirola, appearing in print in Madrid in 1782. Under the title 'Cancionero de Baena) a second edi tion was published by P. J. Pidal (Madrid 1851), and a third by Fr. Michel (Leipzig 1860). Consult Cueto, L. A. de (Marquis de Valinar), Revue des Deux Mondes (15 May 1853) ; Menendez y Pelayo, M., 'Antologia de poetas liricos, Ticknor, 'History of Spanish (New York 1854).