Fray Luis de León: A Biographical Fragment
Chapter 13
is elected on the committee appointed to revise François Vatable's version of the Bible, 15;
threatens to burn Castro's _Commentaria in Essaiam Prophetam_, 16;
out-argues Bartolomé de Medina, 18;
goes to Belmonte, 19;
falls ill, 19; is mentioned as an offender before the Inquisitionary Committee, 20;
hands in a written statement to the local Inquisition, 21;
his arrest is recommended by that body, 22;
he finds fault with Leon de Castro's knowledge of Latin and Greek and proposes to call witnesses to prove this point, 33 _n._;
quarrels with Medina, 36 _n._;
appeals to the Consejo Real at Madrid and wins his case, 36 _n._;
is taken to Valladolid jail by Almansa, 40;
is lodged in the secret cells of the Inquisition, 40;
is nervous about his health, 41;
asks for books, for powders for his heart-attacks, and for a knife to cut his food, 41;
is charged with translating into Spanish the _Song of Solomon_, and admits having done so, 42;
implies that a copy may have reached Portugal, 44;
proves a formidable foe, 46;
petitions that his University Chair should be kept open until the end of his trial, 47;
his petition is refused and Medina is appointed in his place, 48;
his health suffers from imprisonment, and he asks for the companionship of a monk of his order, 49;
he requests to be transferred to a Dominican Monastery, 50;
petitions for leave to go to confession and to say Mass, 50;
his requests are refused, 50;
the increasing bias of the tribunal against him, 51;
he complains of his bad memory, 51;
his fearless attitude, 52;
he brands all Dominicans as enemies, 52;
objects to the Faculty of Theology at Alcalá de Henares, 53;
inveighs against Medina and Castro, 54;
prevents Montoya's election as Provincial of the Augustinians in Spain, 55;
describes Montoya as notorious for lying, 56;
entrusts Arboleda to collect favourable evidence, 56;
brands Diego de Zúñiga as a deliberate perjurer, 57;
his criticism on Zúñiga's book, 60;
his counsel, Dr. Ortiz de Funes, 65;
his skill in drawing up his own defence, 65;
he is told to choose two _patronos_ from four names unknown to him, 66;
requests that he be given Sebastian Perez as _patrono_, 66;
suggests that Dr. Cáncer or Hernando del Castillo may be appointed with Perez, 66;
asks that Castillo's name be removed from the list of _patronos_, 67;
threatens to appeal to the Inquisitor-General against the enforced choosing of unknown _patronos_, 67;
decides to accept as _patronos_ Fray Mancio de _Corpus Christi_ and either Medina or Dr. Cáncer, 68;
Mancio is appointed _patrono_ and makes a report favourable to him, 69;
all information of this is withheld from him, 69;
he protests against his papers being entrusted to Mancio, 69;
his suspicions and distrust of Mancio, 69-71;
he becomes reconciled with Mancio, 72;
loses judicial favour owing to his vacillations over Mancio, 73;
his demeanour in court, 74;
his portrait by Pacheco, 79;
his want of humour, 80;
his gift of sarcasm, 80;
his versatility, 81; his conservatism, 81;
his teachers, 81;
his books, 81, 82;
his knowledge of Italian, 83;
his curiosity about astrology, 84, 85;
he urges the Court to prosecute Castro for perjury, 86;
declares that his detention is illegal and demands compensation for it, 86;
his health declines and his irritability increases, 87;
he is blamed by Castillo for teaching erroneous doctrine, 89;
his moods of depression, 89;
Menchaca, Álava, Tello Maldonado, and Albornoz recommend that he be tortured, 90;
a more lenient view is adopted by Guijano de Mercado and Frechilla, 91;
the Supreme Inquisition brushes aside the views of both parties, 91;
he is publicly reprimanded by order of the Supreme Inquisition and acquitted, 92;
his Spanish version of the _Song of Solomon_ is confiscated, 92;
he asks for an official certificate of acquittal and for arrears of salary as regards his chair, 92;
his applications are granted but their fulfilment delayed, 92;
his return to Salamanca, 145;
he meets the _Claustro_ of the University, 146;
renounces all claim to his Chair so long as it is occupied by Castillo, 146;
creation of a provisional new chair for him by the _Claustro_, 147;
he lectures in his new chair January 29, 1577, 147;
his famous alleged phrase _Dicebamus hesterna die_, 147-150;
difficulties about his lecture-hours, 151;
he presents himself as a candidate for the Chair of Moral Philosophy, 152;
is strenuously opposed by Zumel, 152;
defeats Zumel by a majority of seventy-nine votes, 153;
takes the degree of M.A., 153;
is appointed member of the committee for the reform of the calendar, 153;
his contest with Domingo de Guzman for the Biblical chair at Salamanca, vacant by the death of Gregorio Gallo, 154-155;
he defeats Guzman by thirty-six votes, 157;
appeal lodged by Guzman against irregularity in voting, 157;
judgement given in favour of Luis de Leon, 157;
he reads himself into the chair at Salamanca, December 7, 1579, 158;
publishes a Latin commentary on the _Song of Solomon_, 158;
chivalrously supports Montemayor against Domingo de Guzman at a theological meeting in Salamanca, 160-161;
through this action he is involved in a quarrel with Domingo Bañez, 161;
the case comes before the Valladolid Inquisition, 162;
he presents himself voluntarily before the Inquisitionary tribunal at Salamanca on March 8, 163;
appears again before it on March 31, and offers to apologize if he has exceeded in his defence of Montemayor, 163;
his lecture on predestination (1571) is brought before the tribunal by Zumel, 164;
his enemies, Zumel, Guzman, and Bañez, 164;
he receives a severely reproachful letter from Villavicencio, 165;
is summoned to Toledo and privately reprimanded by Quiroga, 167;
publishes _Los Nombres de Cristo_ and _La perfecta casada_, 168;
is appointed to settle the suit between the University of Salamanca and the _Colegios Mayores_, 168;
progress of the suit and conduct of the _Claustro,_ 168-173;
he refuses the invitation of Sixtus V and Philip II to join the committee for the revision of the Vulgate, 173;
is appointed by the papal nuncio to inquire into the administration of funds by the Provincial of the Augustinians in Castile, 173;
begins the publication of his edition of Saint Theresa's works, 174;
upholds Madre Ana de Jesus's reforms, 174;
is appointed by the Pope to execute them, 175;
is opposed by Doria and Philip II, 175-176;
his weakening health and the continuous opposition of his enemies, 178-179;
he is reported to be suffering from tumour, 180;
his lingering illness, 181;
he is elected Provincial of the Augustinians in Castile, August 14, 1591, 181;
his death, August 23, 1591, 181;
his character by Pacheco, 181-183;
his prose works, 202-210;
his poems, 210-221;
his versification, 221-229;
his character, 230-232.
Leon (Miguel de) 8, 28 _n._
Leon (Pedro de) 25 _n._
Leon (Pero Fernandez de) 26 _n._
Loarte (Diego de) [_see_ Oloarte and Olarte] 195 _n._, 211
Lopez (Diego) 117 _n._, 118 _n._
Lopez de Sedano (Juan Josef) 188 _n._
Lucas (Francisco) 241
Lucas (Saint) 124 _n._
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Madrigal 195 _n._
Mancio de _Corpus Christi_ 35 _n._, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 81, 91, 122 _n._, 123 _n._, 124 _n._
Manrique (Angel) 30 _n._
Manrique (Jorge) 203
Mármol (Dr. Bernabé del) 174, 175
Martínez de Cantalapiedra (Martin) 13, 20, 21, 22, 31 _n._, 33 _n._, 37 _n._, 42
Medina (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, 154, 155, 187 _n._
Menchaca (Francisco de) 90, 139 _n._
Méndez (F. de) 5, 26, 200 _n._
Mendoza (Bernardino de) 35 _n._
Mendoza (Diego Hurtado de) 212
Menéndez y Pelayo (Marcelino) 236 _n._, 237 _n._
Merino (Antolin) 191 _n._
Mondéjar (Marqués de) 35 _n._
Montemayor (Prudencio de) 159, 160, 161, 163
Montoya (Gabriel) 55, 56, 120 _n._
Moreno de Bohorquez (Luis) 182, 240
Muiños Sáenz (Conrado) 114 _n._, 115 _n._, 119 _n._, 188 _n._, 200 _n._, 201 _n._, 237 _n._
Muñiz 33 _n._
Muñon 33 _n._
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Napoleon 1
Niño (Hernando) 138 _n._
O
Olarte (Diego de) 233 _n._
Olivares (Conde-duque de) 209
Olivares (Pedro de) 23 _n._
Oloarte (_see_ Loarte and Olarte) 210, 225
Onís (Federico de) 230, 235 _n._
Orozco (Alonso de), 206, 235 _n._
Ortiz de Funes (Doctor), 65, 66, 67, 68, 104 _n._
Osorio (Isabel), 42, 43, 234 _n._
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Pacheco (Francisco), 78, 79, 80, 160, 181, 182, 184, 200 _n._, 201 _n._ [_and_ Appendix]
Palacios (Francisco de), 162
Paul (Saint), 12
Peralto (Hernando de), 195 _n._
Perez (Antonio), 230, 231
Perez (Sebastian), 66, 67
Pérez Pastor (Cristóbal), 199 _n._
Philip II, 168, 170, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 181, 183, 184, 243
Picatoste y Rodríguez (Felipe), 112 _n._
Pindar, 83
Pineda, 115 _n._
Pinelo (Gabriel), 95 _n._
Pinto (Hector), 53, 108 _n._, 162
Plantin, 82
Plato, 205
Plutarch, 205
Ponce de Leon (Basilio), 24 _n._, 149, 150
Portocarrero (Alonso), 212
Portocarrero (Pedro), 208, 211, 212, 215, 235 _n._
Portonariis (Gaspar de), 104 _n._
Possevino (Antonio), 242
Poza (Licenciado), 85, 132 _n._
Pozas (Marqués de), 57
Q
Quevedo (_see_ Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas)
Quijano (Juan), 186 _n._, 200 _n._
Quiroga (Gaspar de), 167
R
Ramos (Nicolás), 77, 138 _n._
Rejon (Alonso), 36 _n._
Reusch (Heinrich), 197 _n._
Riego (El Inquisidore), 132 _n._
Rodriguez (Benito), 90
Rodriguez (Diego), _see_ Zúñiga, 58, 63, 113 _n._, 114 _n._, 117 _n._, 118 _n._
Rodriguez (Diego), 151
Rodríguez Marín (Francisco), 114 _n._, 191 _n._
Rojas (Pedro de), 57, 112 _n._, 114 _n._, 118 _n._, 195 _n._
Ruiz, 195 _n._
Ruiz de Alarcon y Mendoza (Juan), 3
S
Sahagun (Doctor Diego de), 168
Sainz de Baranda (Pedro), _passim_
Salinas (Francisco de), 7, 80, 84, 154, 190 _n._, 211, 233 _n._
Salvá (Miguel), _passim_
Samson, 217
Sanchez (Bartolomé), 189 _n._
Sanchez (Francisco), _el Brocense_ 32 _n._, 202, 216, 236 _n._
Sanchez (Miguel), 222, 224
Sánchez de Olivares (Díez), 23 _n._
Sánchez de Olivares (Leonor), 6, 23 _n._
Sancho (Francisco, bishop of Segoibe), 152
Sancho (Francisco), 33 _n._, 100 _n._, 104 _n._, 105 _n._
Sancho (el maestro Francisco), 93 _n._
Santa Cruz (Joan de), 162, 163, 193 _n._, 195 _n._
Santa Maria (Francisco de), 176, 177, 178, 199 _n._
Sarmiento de Mendoza (Manuel), 209, 215
Sebastian I, 214
Shakespeare, 221
Siluente (Alonso), 49, 94, 101 _n._
Simonides, 205
Sixtus V, 173, 174
Sobrino (Doctor), 180
Solana (Andrés de), 165
Solís (Antonio de), 168
Sophocles, 83, 205
Suarez (Pedro), 158, 193 _n._
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Tapia (Mencía de), 28 _n._
Tasso (Bernardo), 223
Tellez Giron (Rodrigo), 23 _n._
Tello Maldonado (Luis), 90, 139 _n._
Theresa (Saint), 12, 174, 175, 178, 180, 181, 199 _n._, 203, 242
Tiberius, 1
'Tirso de Molina', 3
Torre (Francisco de la), 228
U
Uceda (Gaspar de), 110 _n._
Uceda (Pedro de), 100 _n._, 189 _n._
'Urganda la Desconocida', 155, 191 _n._
V
Vadillo (Doctor), 70
Valbás (Doctor), 32 _n._
Valera (Bernardino de), 234 _n._
Valera (Francisco de), 234 _n._
Valera (Inés de), 233 _n._, 234 _n._
Valera (Juan de). 233 _n._
Valladolid (Diego de), 39
Vañez (_see_ Bañez)
Varela Osorio (Maria), 204
Vatable (François), 15, 16, 17, 33 _n._, 82, 104 _n._, 105 _n._
Vega Carpio (Felix Lope de) 3, 244
Velazquez 79
Vicente de la Fuente 31 _n._, 32 _n._, 199 _n._
Villanueva (Leonor de) 6, 23 _n._
Villavicencio (Lorenzo de) 165
Vio (Cardinal Thomas de), surnamed Cajetanus 133 _n._
Vique (Juan) 33 _n._
Virgil 83, 207
W
Wordsworth 229
Z
Zumel (Francisco) 152, 153, 159, 164, 172, 193 _n._
Zúñiga (Diego de), _see_ Arias and Rodriguez, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 77, 83, 113 _n._, 114 _n._, 115 _n._, 117 _n._, 118 _n._, 119 _n._
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