Fray Luis de León eBook

James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 168 pages of information about Fray Luis de León.

Fray Luis de León eBook

James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 168 pages of information about Fray Luis de León.

  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. Cancer 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. Cancer, 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, Alava, 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;

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