LUIS See also:

• PONCE

PONCE DE See also:

• LEON
• LUIS PONCE DE LEON (1527-1591)
• LEON, MOSES BEN SI
• LEON, or LEON DE LAS ALDAMAS

LEON (1527-1591)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish poet and mystic, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Belmonte de See also:

• CUENCA

Cuenca, entered the university of See also:

• SALAMANCA
• SALAMANCA (anc. Salmantica or Elmantica)

Salamanca at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of fourteen, and in 1544 joined the Augustinian See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order . In 1561 he obtained a theological See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair at Salamanca, to which in 1571 was added that of sacred literature . He was denounced to the See also:

• INQUISITION, THE (Lat. inquisitio, an inquiry)

Inquisition for translating the See also:

• BOOK

book of See also:

• CANTICLES

Canticles, and for criticizing the See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text of the See also:

• VULGATE (from Lat. vulgus, the common people)

Vulgate . He was consequently imprisoned at See also:

• VALLADOLID

Valladolid from See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1572 till See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1576 ; the charges against him were then abandoned, and he was released with an admonition . He returned to Salamanca as See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of Biblical exegesis, and was again reported to the Inquisition in 1582, but without result . In 1583—1585 he published the three books of a celebrated mystic See also:

• TREATISE

treatise, Los Nombres de Cristo, which he had written in See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison . In 1583 also appeared the most popular of his See also:

• PROSE

prose See also:

• WORKS

works, a treatise entitled La Perfecta Casada, for the use of a See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady newly married . Ten days before his See also:

• DEATH

death, which occurred at See also:

• MADRIGAL (Ital. madrigale)

Madrigal on the 23rd of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1591, he was elected See also:

• VICAR (Lat. vicarius, substitute)

vicar See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general of the Augustinian order . Luis de See also:

• LEON
• LEON, LUIS PONCE DE (1527-1591)
• LEON, MOSES BEN SI
• LEON, or LEON DE LAS ALDAMAS

Leon is not only the greatest of Spanish mystics; he is among the greatest of Spanish lyrical poets . His See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations of See also:

• EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides, See also:

• PINDAR (Gr. HivSapos, c. 522–443 B.c.)

Pindar, See also:

• VIRGIL (PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARC)
• VIRGIL, POLYDORE (c. 1470-1555)

Virgil and See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace are singularly happy; his See also:

• ORIGINAL

original pieces, whether devout like the See also:

• ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

ode De la See also:

• VIDA, MARCO GIROLAMO (c. 1489-1566)

vida del cielo, or See also:

• SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

secular like the ode A Salinas, are See also:

• INSTINCT

instinct with a serene sublimity unsurpassed in any literature, and their See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form is impeccable . Absorbed by less worldly interests, Fray Luis de Leon refrained from See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing his poems, which were not issued till 1631, when Quevedo published them as a counterblast to cislteranismo . The best edition of Luis de Leon's works is that of See also:

• MERINO

Merino (6 vols., See also:

• MADRID

Madrid, 1816) ; the reprint (Madrid, 1885) by C .

Munoz Saenz is incorrect . The text of La Perfecta Casada has been well edited by See also:

• MISS

Miss See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth See also:

• WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL (1823— )
• WALLACE, LEWIS [LEW] (1827—1905)
• WALLACE, SIR RICHARD
• WALLACE, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1270-1305)
• WALLACE, WILLIAM (1768-1843)
• WALLACE, WILLIAM (1844-1897)
• WALLACE, WILLIAM VINCENT (1814-1865)

Wallace (See also:

• CHICAGO
• CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF

Chicago, 1903) . See Coleccion de documentos ineditos See also:

• PARA
• PARA (officially BELEM; sometimes BELEM DO PARA)

Para la historia de Espana, vols. x.-xi.; F . H . See also:

• REUSCH, FRANZ HEINRICH (1823-1900)
• REUSCH, HANS HENRIK (1852– )

Reusch, Luis de Leon and See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die spanische Inquisition (See also:

• BONN

Bonn, 1873) ; M . Gutierrez, Fray Luis de Leon y la filosofia espannola (Madrid, 1885) ; M . Menendez y Pelayo, Estudios de critica literaria (Madrid, 1893), Primera serie, pp . 1-72 .