 According to Keith Whinnom, San Pedro must not have been a major literary figure of Queen Isabel's court.Indeed, San Pedro expresses fear of the women's mockery in his dedication to the ladies in "Tractado de amores de Arnalte y Lucenda".Whinnom describes San Pedro as an hidalgo, or a member of the lower nobility, who did as he was ordered, seemed afraid of ridicule, and was willing to go to extreme lengths to please the ladies-in-waiting of the queen.