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[Footnote 263:  They must have been known to the dedicatee of the Noche serena, whom I am inclined to identify with Diego de Olarte who appeared before the Valladolid tribunal (Documentos ineditos, vol.  XI, pp. 301-302).  But the only positive evidence on this head is given by Francisco de Salinas who testified ’que era amigo del dicho fray Luis de Leon, el cual venia muchas veces a casa deste testigo, y oyo deste testigo la especulativa, y comunicaba con este testigo cosas de poesia y otras cosas del arte’ (Documentos ineditos, vol.  XI, pp. 302-303).]

[Footnote 264:  In the early editions—­those of 1583, 1585, 1587, 1595, and 1603—­De los nombres de Cristo and La Perfecta Casada are bound up together.  Each treatise has a separate pagination in all five cases.]

[Footnote 265:  Luis de Leon’s mother was ’Ines de Valera, hija de Juan de Valera, vecino que fue de la villa de Belmente, escudero, que vivia de su hacienda’ (Documentos ineditos, vol.  X, pp. 170-171).  The substitution of Varela for Valera, or vice versa, is easy in Spanish.  An example of such a substitution in the case of Luis de Leon’s mother is given by Blanco Garcia, Fr. Luis de Leon, p. 24, n. 1.  Blanco Garcia mentions a tombstone in the monastery of San Jeronimo at Granada with the following inscription: 

’En esta capilla esta enterrado el noble hidalgo el Lic.  Lope de Leon del Cº del Rey nuestro Senor, Oidor que fue de Granada, y Asistente de Sevilla:  fallecio a 24 de Julio de 1562 anos:  y Dona Ines Barela (sic), y Alarcon, su mujer, doto esta capilla para entierro suyo y de sus descendientes.’

The name of Luis de Leon’s maternal grandmother was Mencia Alvarez Osorio.  From these circumstances, it appears possible that some relationship existed between the dedicatee of La Perfecta Casada and the author of that treatise.  Luis de Leon had four maternal uncles, three of whom were laymen—­Francisco de Valera, Bernardino de Valera, and Cristobal de Alarcon, ‘capitan que fue en Italia’.  All three had died before April 15, 1572 (Documentos ineditos, vol.  X, p. 181).

It is also possible that Isabel Osorio (Documentos ineditos, vol.  XI, p. 271), to whom the manuscript of the vernacular version of the Song of Songs was lent, may likewise have been related to Luis de Leon.]

[Footnote 266:  Orozco’s treatise was printed in La Ciudad de Dios (1888), vol.  XXI, pp. 393-401, and vol.  XXII, pp. 543-550.  It is reproduced by Sr.  D. Federico de Onis in his edition of De los nombres de Cristo in the series of Clasicos Castellanos (1914), vol.  XXVIII, pp. 261-281, and (1917), vol.  XXXIII, pp. 257-271.]

[Footnote 267:  Nowhere have I found an indication of Portocarrero’s birth-date.  He became Bishop of Calahorra in 1587, and was translated to Cordoba in 1594; he died on September 20, 1600.]