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.

  fails to obtain the chair of Biblical exegesis at Salamanca, 10;

  thwarts the designs of Domingo Banez, 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 Francois Vatable’s
    version of the Bible, 15;

  threatens to burn Castro’s Commentaria in Essaiam Prophetam,
    16;

  out-argues Bartolome 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 Alcala 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 Zuniga as a deliberate perjurer, 57;

  his criticism on Zuniga’s book, 60;

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