Chapter 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._