Category: Biographies
This biographical sketch is, in fact, a fragment of a book which will now never come into existence. This particular chapter has been snatched from the burning by an accident. The name of Luis de Leon deservedly ranks as high as that of any poet in the history of Spanish liter...
[Footnote 76: _Documentos inéditos_, vol. XI, p. 188: 'E antes de ser llevado á su cárcel, dijo quél está muy enfermo de calenturas como á sus mercedes les consta, y no tiene qu...
7. Chapter 7[Footnote 140: _Documentos inéditos_, vol. XI, p. 35. Luis de Leon had applied for a special hearing: '...para suplicar á sus mercedes que ninguno de sus papeles se dé al maestr...
5. Chapter 5Disorderly and incoherent as it is, the record of the case enables us to corroborate and, in one or two trifling particulars, to supplement the details reported by Francisco Pac...
2. Chapter 2The fires of these differences had smouldered for some years when, during the University course (as it appears) of 1568-1569, Luis de Leon gave a series of lectures wherein he d...
11. Chapter 11By his contemporaries Luis de Leon was perhaps more esteemed as a theologian or a scholar than as a man of letters. This judgement has been reversed by posterity mainly on the s...
12. Chapter 12Ah, raise your fainting eyes To that firm sphere which still new glory weareth, And scorn the low disguise The flattering world prepareth, And all the world's poor thrall hopeth...
9. Chapter 9The Valladolid Inquisitors had not treated him in such fashion as to make him desirous of meeting them again. This experience was, however, awaiting him.[216] On January 20 or 2...
3. Chapter 3[Footnote 43: This is established by the evidence of Mancio, a professor who came to Medina's rescue: '...vió este testigo quel dicho fray Luis de Leon arguyó al dicho fray Bart...
1. Chapter 1This biographical sketch is, in fact, a fragment of a book which will now never come into existence. This particular chapter has been snatched from the burning by an accident. T...
10. Chapter 10Though most people who are interested in Luis de Leon at all are familiar with Pacheco's portrait of him, Pacheco's character-sketch is so apt to be overlooked that it may be br...
4. Chapter 4The fact that Diego de Zúñiga is a frequent combination of names in Spain is an embarrassment to the investigator. It is noticeable that Luis de Leon's references seem to imply...
8. Chapter 8[Footnote 184: The peremptory letter of the Supreme Inquisition to the Valladolid tribunal is printed in _Documentos inéditos_, vol. XI, p. 354: 'Aquí se ha visto el proceso con...
13. Chapter 13Medina (Bartolomé de) 18, 19, 20, 21, 33 _n._, 35 _n._, 36 _n._, 37 _n._, 38 _n._, 42, 48, 54, 62, 68, 70, 77, 80, 100 _n._, 105 _n._, 110 _n._, 123 _n._, 129 _n._, 146, 151, 15...