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Fray Luis de León

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A

Abarca de Sotomayor (Ana) 93 n.

Agustiniana, Revista passim

Alarcon (Cristóbal de) 234 n.

Alarcon (fulano de) 110 n.

Alarcon (Inés de) 27 n., 234 n.

Alarcon (María de) 28 n.

Álava (Andrés de) 90, 128 n., 139 n.

Albornoz (Francisco de) 90, 139 n.

Alcañices (Marqués de) 235 n.

Alcázar (Baltasar de) 229

Almansa (Francisco de) 39, 40, 93 n., 94 n.

Almansa (Pedro de) 94 n.

Almaraz (Antonio de) 189 n.

Almeida (Juan de) 33 n., 129 n., 224

Alvarez (Luis) 44

Alvarez Guijarro (Carlos) 193 n., 198 n.

Alvarez Osorio (Mencía) 234 n.

Ambrose (Saint) 205

Ana de Jesús (La Madre) 12, 30 n., 174, 180, 181, 203

Antolinez (Agustin) 180

Aragon (Pedro de) 165, 194 n.

Arboleda (Francisco de) 56, 57, 112 n.

Arce (Antonio de) 137 n.

Arias Montano (Benito) 62, 63, 83, 119 n., 120 n., 202, 210, 221, 224

Arias (Diego) 59, 114 n.

Aristotle 82

Arresse (Juan de) 166, 197 n.

Asensio y Toledo (José Maria) 201 n.

B

Bañez (Domingo) 10, 154, 161, 164, 194 n., 195 n., 196 n.

Barrera (Cayetano Alberto de la) 190 n., 191 n.

Barrientos 48, 100 n.

Béjar (Séptimo duque de) 58

Bembo (Pietro) 83, 84, 218

Bernal, Dr. 170

Berrueta 237 n.

Blanco García (Francisco) passim

Bolivar (Pedro) 138 n.

Bonard (Cornelio) 199 n.

Boscan Almogaver (Juan) 223

Braganza (Teutonio de) 175

Bravo 33 n.

C

Cabrera de Córdoba (Luis) 184

Calderon de la Barca Henao de la Barreda y Riaño (Pedro) 3

Cáncer, Dr. 66, 68, 77, 137 n.

Cano (Melchor) 81, 131 n., 202

Caravajal (Diego de) 112 n.

Carlos (el maestro Don) 33 n.

Carlos (el príncipe Don) 211

Caro (Rodrigo) 244

Carranza (Bartolomé de) 21, 35 n., 85, 134 n.

Castañeda (Juan de) 161, 194 n.

Castillo (Garcia del) 33 n.

Castillo (Hernando del) 66, 67, 89, 137 n.

Castro (Adolfo de) 190 n.

Castro (Leon de) 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24 n., 31 n., 32 n., 33 n., 34 n., 35 n., 54, 62, 77, 80, 86, 110 n.

Castro (Pedro de) 91, 139 n., 141 n.

Cayetano (see Vio).

Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de) 3, 58, 155, 184, 191 n.

Cetina (Gutierre de) 228

Churton (Edward) 219, 220, 225

Cicero 207

Ciguelo (Juan) 77, 78, 128 n.

Cipriano (el maestro) 81

Clement of Alexandria (Saint) 205

Copernicus (Nicolaus) 61, 114 n., 115 n.

Coscojales (Martin de) 165, 194 n.

Cruesen (Nicolaas) 148, 149

Cruz (Joan de la) (see Santa Cruz)

Cueto (Francisco) 71, 114 n., 117 n.

Cyprian (Saint) 205

D

Darío (Rubén) 224

Doria (Nicolás de Jesus Maria) 174, 175, 176, 179

E

Ercilla y Zúñiga (Alonso) 229

Espinosa (Alonso de) 224

Espinosa (Ana de) 41, 95 n.

Estrada (Doctor) 180

Euripides 205

F

Fernandez (Alonso) 193 n.

Frechilla (Doctor) 77, 91, 139 n., 140

G

Galileo 57, 112 n.

Galvan (Juan) 84

Gallardo (Bartolome Jose) 145, 185 n., 187 n., 191 n., 192 n., 199 n.

Gallego (Juan) 36 n.

Gallo (Juan) 33 n., 34 n., 190 n.

Gallo (Gregorio) 9, 154

Gaona (Diego de) 107 n.

Garcia del Castillo 146

Garcilasso, see Lasso de la Vega (Garci).

Getino (Luis G. Alonso) passim

Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas (Francisco) 209, 215

Góngora (Luis de) 209

Gonzalez (Diego) 21, 39, 94 n., 128 n.

Gonzalez de Tejada (J.) 28 n., 29 n., 100 n.

Grajal (Gaspar de) 10, 13, 20, 21, 22, 29 n., 33 n., 36 n., 37 n., 42, 108 n., 157, 162

Granada (Luis de) 203

Grial (Juan de) 213

Guevara (Juan de) 11, 33 n., 35 n., 81, 108 n., 190 n., 194 n., 195 n.

Guevara (Martin de) 127 n.

Guigelmo 132 n.

Guijano de Mercado (Doctor) 91, 92, 128 n., 139 n., 140 n., 144 n.

Gustin (Celedon) 46, 144 n., 163

Gutiérrez (Juan) 107 n.

Gutiérrez (Marcelino) 115 n.

Guzman (Domingo de) 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 160, 161, 164, 190 n., 191 n., 192 n., 197 n.

H

Haedo (Diego de) 24 n., 96 n.

Henriquez (Dr. Diego) 171

Henry VIII 1

Herrera (Fernando de) 207, 229

Homer 83

Horace 83, 159, 207, 208, 217, 236 n.

I

Ibañez, see Bañez.

Ibarra (Juan de) 138 n.

Isaiah 13, 15, 34 n.

J

Jerónimo (San) 32 n., 33 n., 108 n., 234 n.

Jesús y Maria (José de) 178, 199 n.

John Chrysostom (Saint) 33 n.

John of the Cross (Saint) 230

Junta (Lucas) 28 n.

Justin (Saint) 82, 83

L

Laredo (Bernardino de) 203

Lasso de la Vega (Garci) 155, 205, 216 n., 223, 228, 236 n.

Leo (Saint) 83

Leon (Antonio de) 28 n.

Leon (Cristobal de) 8

Leon (Diego de) 43, 44, 204

Leon (Francisco de) 7

Leon (Gomez de) 6, 23 n., 25 n.

Leon (Lope de) 6, 23 n., 25 n., 27 n., 234 n., 238

León (Luis de)

his full name, 5; his Jewish descent, 5-6; his birthplace, 6; his date of birth, 7; he goes to Madrid, then to the University of Salamanca, 7; he enters a religious order, 7; renounces his share of the paternal estate, 8; professes in the Augustinian order, 8; his name appears on the list of theological students at Salamanca, 8; he lectures at Soria, 9; matriculates at Alcalá de Henares, 9; graduates at Toledo, 9; graduates as licentiate of theology at Salamanca, 9; fails to obtain the chair of Biblical exegesis at Salamanca, 10; thwarts the designs of Domingo Bañez, 10; is elected Professor of Theology at Salamanca, 10; is transferred to the chair of Scholastic Theology and Biblical Criticism, 10, 11; is chosen to be the first editor of St. Theresa's works, 12; incurs the enmity of Leon de Castro, 13, 14; lectures on the Vulgate, 14; 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.

M

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.

N

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.

P

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, 193n.

T

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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