Chapter V

[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 inéditos_, 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 á casa deste testigo, y oyó deste testigo la especulativa, y comunicaba con este testigo cosas de poesía y otras cosas del arte' (_Documentos inéditos_, 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 'Inés de Valera, hija de Juan de Valera, vecino que fué de la villa de Belmente, escudero, que vivia de su hacienda' (_Documentos inéditos_, 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 García, _Fr. Luis de León_, p. 24, _n._ 1. Blanco García mentions a tombstone in the monastery of San Jerónimo at Granada with the following inscription:

'_En esta capilla está enterrado el noble hidalgo el Lic. Lope de Leon del Cº del Rey nuestro Señor, Oidor que fué de Granada, y Asistente de Sevilla: falleció á 24 de Julio de 1562 años: y Doña Inés Barela_ (sic), _y Alarcon, su mujer, dotó esta capilla para entierro suyo y de sus descendientes._'

The name of Luis de Leon's maternal grandmother was Mencía 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 Cristóbal de Alarcon, 'capitan que fué en Italia'. All three had died before April 15, 1572 (_Documentos inéditos_, vol. X, p. 181).

It is also possible that Isabel Osorio (_Documentos inéditos_, 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 Onís in his edition of _De los nombres de Cristo_ in the series of _Clásicos 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 Córdoba in 1594; he died on September 20, 1600.]

[Footnote 268: Alonso Getino (_op. cit._, p. 48) writes, however: 'la _Canción del conocimiento de sí mismo_, que es la primera cuya fecha se puede averiguar, la escribió diez años después de entrar en religión'. This is an inference from the closing lines of the poem:

aunque sané del mal y su accidente
diez años há que soy convaleciente.

In a note to the passage quoted above, Alonso Getino refers to the _Canción al nacimiento de la hija del Marqués de Alcañices_, written, as he thinks, 'en un tono impropio de un imberbe'. He appears to have no doubt as to the authenticity of this composition: the correctness of the ascription of this poem to Luis de Leon is at least questionable.]

[Footnote 269: The pieces printed by Sanchez are translations of Ode X, Book II; Ode XXII, Book I; Ode XIII, Book IV; and Epode II.]

[Footnote 270: _Obras del excelente poeta Garcilasso de la Vega_, Salamanca, 1577. This (second) edition is the earliest to which I have access. On pp. 91-92 Sanchez writes: 'Trato este elegantemente Horacio, Oda 10. lib. I. Y porque un docto destos reynos la traduxo bi[~e], y ay pocos casos destos en nuestra lengua, le pondre aqui todo: y ansi enti[~e]do hazer en el discurso destas sentencias quando se ofreciere'. On p. 94, Sanchez writes: 'Por traer el lugar de Horacio, donde todo esto se toma, aure de poner toda la Oda, sacada por el mismo que traduxo la otra'. On pp. 97-98 Sanchez writes: 'Al reves desto se burla Horacio de una dama, motejandola de vieja: y [~q] ya se le passo la flor, aunque ella no lo piensa. Y por estar traduzida por el mismo [~q] las pasadas, põgo aqui la Oda, que es del libro 4 l. 13.']

[Footnote 271: This slip has been pointed out by Menéndez y Pelayo in both editions (Madrid, 1878[?] and 1885) of his _Horacio en España. Solaceas bibliográficas_.]

[Footnote 272: Alonso Getino (_op. cit._, p. 50) and in _El Correo Español_ (1908). A reply to these views has been made in the form of an open letter to Sr. Berrueta, Director of _El Lábaro_, by P. Conrado Muiños Sáenz. The reply of Muiños Sáenz will be found in _La Ciudad de Dios_ (1909), vol. LXXVIII, pp. 479-495, 544-560, vol. LXXIX, pp. 18-34, 107-124, 191-212, 353-374, 529-552; vol. LXXX, pp. 99-125, 177-197.]

[Footnote 273: M. Menéndez y Pelayo, _Antología de poetas líricos castellanos_ (1908), vol. XIII, p. 332.]

[Footnote 274: It is printed among Luis de Leon's poems in the _Biblioteca de Autores Españoles desde la formacion del lenguaje hasta nuestros dias_, vol. XXXVII, pp. 12-13. As this is perhaps the best-known edition of Luis de Leon's poems, most of my quotations are taken from it.]

[Footnote 275: _Sobre la transmisión de la obra literaria de Fr. Luis de León_ in _Revista de Filología española_ (1915), vol. II, pp. 217-257.]