Petrineros side, arch 9
Luis de León
Cartouche
FRAY LUIS DE LEÓN
- Sculptor
- Óscar Alvariño
- Year
- not recorded
- Where it is
- Petrineros side, arch 9
Who he was
1527–1591 Spanish poet and friar
Luis de León, was a Spanish lyric poet, Augustinian friar, theologian and academic. While serving as professor of Biblical scholarship at the University of Salamanca, Fray Luis also wrote many immortal works of Spanish Christian poetry and translated both Biblical Hebrew poetry and Latin Christian poetry into the Spanish language.
Opening paragraph from the Wikipedia article on Luis de León, in the revision we consulted, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Birth and death dates come from Wikidata.
Photograph: Basilio · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 2012-08-30 · file page on Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and colour-matched to sit with the rest.
