Fray Luis de León (Cuenca, La Mancha Spain 1527 – 1591) was a scholar and poet of the Spanish Golden Age. List of cities called Cuenca: Cuenca (Ecuador) Cuenca (Spain), the capital of Cuenca province. ... La Mancha is a historical and natural agricultural region in Spain to the south of Madrid, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha and including parts of the provinces of Ciudad Real, Albacete, Cuenca, and Toledo. ... The royal monastery El Escorial, built by Philip II The Spanish Golden Age was a period of flourishing in arts and letters in Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America, coinciding with the political decline and fall of the Hapsburgs (Phillip III, IV and Charles II). ...

At the age of fourteen he entered the University of Salamanca, and in 1544 he joined the Augustinian Order. Fray Luis remained in Salamanca, teaching at the University of Salamanca, translated classical and biblical literature, and wrote on religious themes. Twice denounced before the Inquisition, he was imprisoned for heresy, though he returned to the University later to hold the chairs of Moral Philosophy and Biblical Studies. Tradition has it that he began his lecture the first day after returning from four years' imprisonment with the words "As we were saying yesterday...." Salamanca: Plaza Mayor Salamanca (population 156,006 (2002)) is a city in central Spain, the capital of the province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. ... The Augustinians, named after Saint Augustine of Hippo (died AD 430), are several Roman Catholic monastic orders and congregations of both men and women living according to a guide to religious life known as the Rule of Saint Augustine. ... Pedro Berruguete. ... Heresy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held to be contrary, to the ‘catholic’ or orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church, or, by extension, to that of any church, creed, or religious system, considered as orthodox. ...

The canon of Fray Luis's poetry, as fixed by Hispanists, consists of twenty nine poems. Apart from those, he wrote mainly prose, most notably, Los nombres de Cristo and La perfecta casada. He also translated Horace's Odes into Spanish. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC), known in the English world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin. ...