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.
