Luis de León was an Augustinian friar, a Salamanca professor and one of the finest poets in Spanish, yet abroad he is known mostly for a doubtful anecdote. Working from the published records of his first Inquisition trial, Fitzmaurice-Kelly reconstructs the accusations, the rivalries among his colleagues and the long imprisonment that followed.
A short, scholarly portrait of a great poet caught in the machinery of the Inquisition. Download the free EPUB.