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HISPANIC
NOTES & MONOGRAPHS
AND BRIEF
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BENITO ARIAS
MONTANO
BY
AUBREY
F.
G.
BELL
17^1 So-
PRINTED IN ENGLAND
AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY FREDERICK HALL
PREFACE
PREFACE
One
six-
to the interest
and the
which he took part on
The
hope
lifetime
Jerome
(i).
to present
man who
in
accompanied
by
seventy-seven documents, was published
in the Memorias de la Real Acadeniia de
la Historia, tom. 7 (1832), pp. 1-199:
E log to historico del Doctor Benito Arias
Gonzalez
Carvajal,
Montano [here
referred
to
as Carvajal].
HISPANIC NOTES
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vi
His
N T
ANO
activity as book-collector in
in
Flanders
the JaJir-
Sammhmgen
dcs
Bd. 25 (1905)^
i-ii:
NiederL.ndische
Biicherenverpp.
bungen des Beiiito Arias Moniaiio im A uftrage
Kottigs
Phil'J)
letters, written in
printed
in
ineditos
para
Some
II.
of his
the Cokcciofi
de
Docume7iios
( 1
el Secretario
Zayas
Montano appeared
in
Spanish by
book
am
it
gives
AUBREY
F. G.
BELL.
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ARIAS MONTANO
Benito
Arias
and death of
Montano coincided
those of Philip
The
II.
with
King's future
where
his parents
owned some
property,
(3).
His
of the
Holy
son's
education.
Office (4),
saw carefully to
The
latter
his
attended
home, so
that in his
himself Hispalensis.
He
went thence
HISPANIC notp:s
22?5.5
to
ARIAS M O N
TAN O
where he took
and where
name was entered for
we know
that his
in 155
He
year.
at Alcala for
in
some
Marcos
at
Although
Lecn.
won a
dently
letter
Jesuits
till
157 1,
work
he had evi-
his first
early
as
February
155
has
gifts
many
were
his
learning
further
to
to the Council
and
bril-
displayed.
In
1566 Philip II appointed him his chaplain, and two years later chose him to
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS MONTANO
new
the
supervise
of the poly-
edition
glot Bible.
many
way
rare
to Italy,
and
it
(5).
Christophe
{c.
Antwerp,
printer,
was
ready
to
undertake the
vance a sum
of
six
thousand
ducats.
Montano
and
finally,
of the
offer,
a yearly salary of
three
hundred
vedis
as chaplain (6).
him a
letter to the
letter
He
Duke
carried
with
of Alba, and a
nimo de
Curiel,
and minute
instructions
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III
MONTANO
Owing
to
passage and
free
meals on
sea
also
Montano found
himself,
a northern spring,
by heretics.
and
ill
in
and
But
Arias
alone, in
a land infested
He was wrecked on
the coast
cause
the
of Mary,
Queen
of
Scots,
On March
Dutch rebels.
had formally
and added
Duke
The
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS M O N T A N
own
religion,
'
'
priests in
but he
to
Venice.
his
transferred
account
sent
Montano rudely
Philip II Arias
to
calls the
savages
and says that he underwent some natural things and some civil
and uncivil, leaving me plenty to remember, and I am not sorry to have experienced them, however irksome at the
Irish
'
',
time
'
(9).
What
his
experiences
were
near Guatafurda
later.
(Waterford)
six
years
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families {ved?ios\
surrounded by a stone
'
fui
saqueado
y salvajcs de aquella
and he subsequently ran other
At Oxrisks of his life and liberty (n)Arias
and
other
places,
London,
ford,
Montano found that news of the projected
Bible had preceded him, and he adds that
both in England and Ireland he found
of Catholics
an innumerable number
secretly attached to the King of Spain (12).
por
los
ingleses
tierra' (lo),
'
'
On May
Guzman
successor,
the
zealous
D.
Guerau
September
later).
3,
1568, and he
On May
arrived in Flanders,
at
Antwerp.
He
15
left
Arias
(or
till
ten days
Montano
and a friendship sprang up between him and the Governor, the Duke
of Alba, who consulted him on weighty
affairs of State.
Arias Montano lost no
time in getting to work, and the next few
received,
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS MONTANO
years were the busiest of a busy
The
life.
March 1572.
in
far
intimate
friend,
the
King's
secretary,
ready
much
in
it
says
and
goodwill that so great an undertaking was
for his
and
Plantin's diligence
is
amazing.
The
rigours of
In
despaired
Pentateuch.
at
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ARIAS MONTANO
other
In questions of
countries (i6).
ecclesiastical preferment
and even of
civil
known
many
to him,
vancement
it
to
(17).
of the
the
new
Breviary,
Catholics
in
Flanders (19).
He
had
to
title-pages of the
adorned
his
of 4,000
florins
make
sum
(20),
Spanish
with
his
to write
own hand,
Aniwtr^ wroie
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS MONTANO
oscura^ {21).
cure
and send
off (22)
'in
some good
for the
in
Spain
tures,
illuminated
manuscripts,
paper,
iarqinmesas)^
curtains,
sin
illuminated
crucifix.
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lO
II
Much
are concerned
King.
in
matter.
this
He
clearly very
much
as
to
buyer and to
damage done
in
original
manuscripts
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS MONTANO
II
some
on the other
hand,
large
we might by
this
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12
told
them
to
O NT ANO
is
'
I,
as
He
thus
obtained,
for
less
than
if
paid
'.
sixty
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS MONTANO
13
King
special
Spanish editions
be made, with the words " Ex
Philip,
should
nobili
Regis
et
"
',
locuplete
bibliotheca
Philippi
them
Esto no hay
'
carefully
the
assisted
by Plantin
(28).
On
August
30,
in
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ARIAS MONTANO
has arrived, for Juan Martinez do Recalde
says that the bales and boxes are so large
no muleteer
that
When
(29).
will
Arias
or can take
Montano was
them
in
Italy
with
fied
Venice
story of
whatever he
Paris
booksellers.
how he turned
the tables on
might affirm
The
prices,
to
the
must
and
own
his bookseller
be told in his
on November
9,
1568,
from Antwerp:
of Segovia,
ducats'
HISPANIC NOTES
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worth,
15
was passing
Queen
of England, in hope
books
for the
the way,
but the
attendants
penny.
He therefore
tried to sell
two or
was afraid
of
being
for
in
the
present disturbances.
letters
ill-treated
I at
of England,
considering the
Queen
conditions
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i6
now
prevailing
in
and that
and Catho-
that island,
all religious
pect,
neither
me
by refusing to
buy any from him and by urging him to
sell them to me, because, as he had no
money and no means of obtaining any, he
greatly
that.
insisted
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS M O N T A N O
17
300.
and
and
no more
to
be
said,
it
think he never
nor
came
a better.
made a worse
When
those greedy
them
Majesty and
me
bargain
men
that the
I
They,
could
who
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ARIAS MONTANO
one who had spent so much time
and money buying books might well have
an occasional windfall and believe me,
if the little Greek had realized that they
that
were
not one of
ducats and
forty
'
(30).
genuine
and a
its
in-
dis
own
sake.
HISPANIC
N O T
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19
III
In addition
to the continual
during these
of business
money
constantly beset by
pressure
years he
was
worries.
He
same of
royal
his
master.
To
scholar like
and exact
money
in
matters, the
methods
As
early as
November 1568
his salary
is
he wrote to Zayas,
money could only be borrowed in Flanders
at a very high rate of interest (31).
'As
in
arrear,
they see
and,
me
and know
that I
is
as
merely
palabra',
on October
is
9,
1570, nearly a
unpaid (33)-
He
was
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20
O NTAN O
afflictoid.
in debt,
FLinders to be
in
soldiers mutinied
It
not surprising
is
'The work
detietie^
he writes on
after
1573,
is
it
May
1571,
1570, and
On December
en aprieto de dincros.
when
9,
se
in
is
19,
300 escudos
to
to
Duke
I
of Alba considered
nevertheless
had
the bird I
thought
in
too
it
it
little,
*but
better to hold
my hand
than to
w'ait
is
of what
(34).
letter
is
due'
To be
given a
pocket the
things,
HISPANIC
NO
'P
ARIAS MONTANO
At
21
last
being prepared in
real cost
in
Germany
The
(36).
January,
lieves that
157
it is
1,
less
whereas
nobody
be-
'
is
100,000',
Duke
of Alba,
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II
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22
richly
bound
in
silver.
Greek,
guages (Latin,
Hebrew,
Syriac,
criiicus
and
Philip's
'
prototypographer
',
Plantin,
to
King
make
the
The
The
edition
The
price of copies
25 to 30 ducats,
and 30
unbound was
to 35 ducats; the
120
florins,
above letter
be got out of
:
'
it.'
were to
sell at
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS MONTANO
the profit could not be great,
even
23
dis-
could in
Montano's suggestion
sent
to
(41).
Ambassador
the
copy was
Rome, Don
but King Philip
in
Portugal,
or
other potentates'
(42).
some idea of
trade
name
giving the
of Philippic,
the
the
title,
Arias
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24
not
all
after
plain sailing,
his
arrival
at
The
was an
honest man, with a violent and domineering temper, who believed that what he did
not
know could
enemy
of Doctors
of the Church.
Hebrew, which,
in
its
richness, often
November
to
the
literal
9,
or
1568, Arias
King's
(43).
On
Montano
writes
poetic
secretary,
Zayas,
on the
it
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS MONTANO
Vulgate should retain
25
place unaltered
its
Another
when Arias
Montano examined a Hebrew codex of
the Anglican Psalter submitted to him by
an Englishman of the name of Clement
{icn cierio Clemente ingles de nad6?i) and
rejected its supposed antiquity and worth,
subject of contention arose
accepted
sonal insult.
'
let
him down
easily
',
not seen
the
book.
made
on an apology to the
he had seen it (47). This only
insisted
effect that
and
Italy.
'
And one
after-
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ARIAS MONTANO
26
noon, as
was
Bishop came
but
San Lorenzo,'
'the good
(48),
cell at
INIontano
Arias
says
my
in
in
'
when he returned
all
would
suffice at
Rome (49),
but
it
soon
in
Rome.
was
It
remark which
certainly not
nothing
to
for
Rome
its
would
There was
editor
have endorsed.
but to send Arias Montano
it
to present a
the Pope.
who
after
Italy returned
home
uttering
HISPANIC NOTES
in
ARIAS MONTANO
Nil nisi
voces,
inauditas
27
nomina
nova
rerum
Italico accentu crepitant,
damnantque
pa-
ternos
Sermones
(51).
He
in
when he
referred in
and in July
I have to go to Rome
1569 he again writes of 'my desire to see
Rome once, for I have never seen it, and
wish
',
spend
to
suggests that
give
his
at least
it
'.
to
Rome, and
that
four
greatly
felt,
and
on without him.
It
was not
till
nearly
He
left
Flanders
at
the
end of April
this year,
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2S
can
still
speak of
work so excellent
'
TANO
jealousy at
Rome that a
as the
Cardinal Pacheco
it
take
chance, but
its
all
difficulties
of
the
and charm.
objections
He
had made
light
against
the
raised
obstacle (56).
Montano was
in
by the Pope,
who show^ed him great favour and at once
fact received several times
granted
the
required privilege.
He
in-
quired of Arias
his
HISPANIC NOTF. S
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29
men
as
(57),
which
Luis de Leon
and
There
Plantin.
is
no
as that
than at
Rome
in
breviaries printed at
'
intolerable
day
'
I find in
praise
God
'
(59).
him
Rome
As
to Plantin, 'every
things that
move me
to
(60).
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ARIAS MONTANO
30
IV
On
return
his
Flanders
'
he
found
miserabilisimas
'.
affairs
The
in
depar-
had always
The first news
considered a fatal error.
of it, told him in confidence by the Duke,
had filled him with dismay, and at the
bidding of the King he had written an
ture of the
Duke
of Alba he
In
coming
to the point,
which was
somewhat slow
but he dwells on
is
HISPANIC
NOT
F.
ARIAS MONT A NO
31
',
Arias
Montano
remain
The
(62).
latter's
wish to
in
also his
Italy
member
pointed a
Flanders,
not
of
with
the
great
Council
salary,
in
but
'
'.
tially
that I
to
Zayas
am
dignities or
'
:
very free
other
declare before
from
high
God
ambition of
estate,
and my
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32
my
Pena', but in view of the exhortalions of the Pope and of learned men in
Spain, France, and Germany to persevere
to
learned foreigners,
'
',
he
is
still
at
Antwerp, expecting
from his
INIajesty.
alguna bitena
inerced
On
October
9,
he begs, in a letter
addressed personally to the King, to be
dently of so
little avail,
HISPANIC
NOT
P:
ARIAS MONTANO
troubles at Genoa, he proceeded to
to aitend the jubilee (thus
published
Philip's
works
meek
to
the
Rome
gratifying
some of
'h'^
an
his recently
Pope.
King
to
return,
him
to allow
and
men
his
of
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ARIAS MONTANO
34
ment
from Zayas
As
rest (66).
is
to Castro,
Montano
wrote Arias
Cuenca on August
announcing
'
the
ar-
spent in Flanders
to
',
the Bishop of
have per-
who
lives at
and throwing
work that has
on the
greatest
Antwerp under
my
direction
campaign against
is
it
criticiis
the
of part
men
many
HISPANIC NOTES
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35
Jerome
St.
should be
text
that
'
the matter
which
extends
many
Montane found
dangering
about
'and
it,
consulted,
full
is
and
Hebrew
and declares
of public scandal
daily,
not
'(67).
At
without
Rome
the cardinals
all
en-
Arias
agog
his
of
it
it,
was
his
'
zeal
'
so far (and
it
is zeal,
it)
and abettors
in
it
is
wrote poor
the Devil
Rome,
for
when
Arias
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3^
mania of
his
'
and
intrigues of
Leon de Castro
at
Rome,
Rome'
by
(68).
Philip II
his
On
known
being less
September
summoned
Arias
7,
at
1575,
Montano
to
many
years
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS MONTANO
willing that I should serve
him
?^1
some
in
to return
to
Spain,
to the
'
',
and Castro,
de Mariana (ti624).
and
It
Jesuit
was a
Juan
difficult
cause Arias
opponent of the
however,
neither
in
for,
Jesuits.
satisfying
He
both
succeeded,
sides
or
Bible
should
be
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placed on ihc
much
he
delay,
gave
the
MONTAN O
Index \\Q
in Arias
latter's
decided, after
Montano's favour,
adversaries
much
March
i,
from Andaluci'a,
fill
the
HISPANIC NOTES
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39
till
to Lisbon.
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40
V
from the King, dated
January 31, 1578, to the Spanish Ambassador at Lisbon, Don Juan de Silva,
With
free
a letter
pass
for
himself and
servants,
two half-days
at
and altogether
his journey
from Madrid
Her
and many
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS MONTANO
41
He
Madrid on March i,
men of letters and under-
leaving 'all
',
Montano
ab-
already
Majesty, and as
him
well
to
known
opinion
in
to
his
Castile
'
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ARIAS MONTANO
42
with
me
will
man
to
hoped
evidently
to
Arias
impose
Montano
his views
on
II.
He
found opinion
and
to
the succession to
dition (76),
favourable
to
as
Castile,
but
people
the
King Philip's
hated the Castilians (77).
chaplain maintained strict reserve on this
with
me
no
matter
'
:
To
more than
it
those
who conversed
advisable, any
the Portu-
would try
to persuade their King as though he were
his own son [ten years had passed since
the death of Don Carlos], to which many
guese,
and
sensible
that I believed he
persons
replied
*'
:
King
Philip
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS M O N T A N O
for
'
when he might
say to his
43
nephew
if
in order to
'
it is
to
curious
To King
had come
some
friends (79).
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AlvlIAS
44
VI
In the following spring Arias Montano
was
at last
La
Peiia,
to
re-
How
jjiiento.
keenly
he
services
recognition
is
felt
that
his
received any
in
al cielo,
De
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS MONTANO
AS
consisted
Peiia
el fruto cierto.
originally
of
the
which
it
It
lay high
up
in the Sierra
of Alajar
The
road
for
filled
In pro-
portion as Arias
celebrated
grew,
with
the
'
esperanzas
espectativas
de Jupiter' (8i).
Scattered along the Sierra de Aracena
were over a thousand houses in which the
puestas sobre
el
cielo
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ARIAS M O N T
40
N O
life
lo cat
in
received
ing
About
Arias Montano, hav-
hermitage
the
from
the
overgrown
sisivio).
to
it
in
He
blossom
rebuilt a
(?///
eriazo
zarzal espe-
like
He
built
or
left it
The
He
and
now, in 1568,
fall
again into
set to
work
to restore
plenty of
game
in the
surrounding
HISPANIC N o T
p:
hills.
ARIAS MONTANO
Crystal springs
47
water
to
Montano had
in
the
planted.
By
ringing bells
Here
he could,
tonio,
in
latere
here he
et Uteris {84),
Duke
Vicentio
'
:
How
have
his will
leaves
to
'
it
For private
suits
me
life
on January
4,
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4S
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MONTANO
thing
more than
to
He now
could,
of prominent persons
who might be
favour-
At last he obeyed an
(87).
urgent summons, and having hired mules
which were to be back at Seville on
September 18, and leaving his luggage
to follow with the arriero of Alcalii, he
arrived at Madrid on September 8 (1579).
The King seems to have thought that in
getting his chaplain to Court he had done
able to Spain
HISPANIC
NoT
p:
ARIAS MONTANO
enough
49
ber 23 Arias
that his
monks
in matters
which
'
a half-educated
(7;//
God
risadas)
that
will
ensue.
He
and
becoming daily
Madrid the Lion
of the
prospect
of
greater,
and says
that at
(Leon de Castro)
denouncing him
is
in
its
roaring after
its
prey,
AND MONOGRAPHS
2235.
^.o
ARIAS M O N T A
market-place, in churches
NO
and convents,
him
(90).
quisition was
his letter of
know
The shadow
upon
January
that he
still
his spirit,
9,
had
of the In-
and from
1580, to Zayas
Italy in view.
in retirement
we
He
till
he
He
he retired definitively to Andalucia.
Seville,
in
life"
his
passed the remainder of
he
at the Convent of Santiago, of which
was now Prior (he was also Comendador
of Santiago, having been granted by the
King the eticojtiienda of Pelay Correa, a
favour previously confined to laymen, so
HISPANIC NOTE'S
ARIAS MONTANO
was called
5T
Campo
de Flores
Las Casillas de
Montano ; it consisted of a house in olives
and fallow land. One of his last acts was
to found a Chair of Latin in the town of
in 1587.
It
and was
later
known
as
AND MONOGRAPHS
E
J-
]ll
MONTANO
VII
There
is
the character
inspired poets,
Hebrew
scholars
who
in-
curred the wrath of the redoubtable Professor of Greek at Salamanca ; both were
Arias
in Latin.
exclusively
his
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS MONTANO
His
first
menta
S?>
humanae
saliitis,
consisting
of
jects,
1.
rum
at
La Peua, nine
years later.
were occupied
years
which he had
many
with
written
His
a vast
last
work
been contemplating
human
for
race
Liber generaiionis
first
part [Aiiimd),
et regenerationis
Adam^
1601
AND MONOGRAPHS
r rA
ARIAS M O N T A N O
of the present
style
volume
was as pure
in
will
Spanish prose as
it
and
the
in
write
vernacular.
Another
He
of his temper.
return
their
to
with
attacks
redoubled
venom.
Pope Gregory
Sebastian,
King
the young
XIII
(95),
Philip II himself,
the spell.
senior,
all
evidently
fell
under
Delfino,
eloaiencia^ or Car-
who would
take
him
Rome,
to
or the
historian Osorio,
HISPANIC NOTES
ARIAS
testified to the
N TAN
]\1
55
He
was
could regard
it
almost as a
failing (98).
'
(99).
He
y todos
Greek bookseller)
and felt
Even
Leon de Castro, he thought, meant well
it was not he, but Satan who incited him,
that was to blame (100).
At the most he
(unless
it
were the
little
hints
Castro has
that
offended
all
the
man
be the only
to others
{aqiiel
may appear
buen hovibre
a pity that
it
it is
AND MONOGRAPHS
ARIAS
5^
M ONTANO
or he refers to
By
fifty
experience had
no la tienen ni pueden
The words in which he dedar'(io5).
scribes a friend might be applied to him-
self
icn
Had
angel en la condicion.
he
and
a strong will, a
had
powerful intelligence, a
to
if
act
the
or was
successful, as with
rial,
his
He
manner
only momentarily
Lindanus
at the Esco-
himself.
charm of
in
imposing
HISPANIC NOT E S
ARIAS MONTANO
^1
Respect
for
his pages,
he would
up all night, from com.ing to blows,
and we are not very anxious when he
announces his intention of reprimanding
for
ill,
sit
another offender
mahana
hablar^
le
He
and poor
found
it
at
La
and
Pefia,
could not
at
Court he
conversation than
to
study (107).
Al-
Carvajal certainly
when he
fish,
and
he did not
on a mat
slept
says
at sunset,
W^
that,
know
although
he was
We know
in
also
Zayas's
that
at
company (no).
the Escorial he
AND MONOGRAPHS
ARIAS MONTANO
which Zayas
later
had sent
he have
could
attained
his
wonderful
medicine with
all
zest,
stant
he wished
for
an
exchange
of
and Flanders,
that foreigners
might imbibe
and
which were peculiarly
Spanish (in).
He was an active man of
affairs as well as an acute scholar, and
in Spain that
strength of character
could
humanist.
Kings of
own
day,
will
Popes and
delight
HISPANIC NOTES
to
ARIAS MONTANO
honour
More
Renaissance.
truly
^9
Spanish
than most
men
AND
]\I
G RA P H
'
ARIA
6o
()
I\r
NOT
NTANO
r:
'
ib., p.
'
'Obiit Hispali
vajal, p.
anno mdlxxxix
age
'
(Car-
is
however, is
escrito de mi mano y
firmado de mi nombre en mi heredad y casa
will,
de
Campo de
'
Flores, fecho
y acabado en
On November
9,
1568,
'
HISPANIC
N OT
L:
NOTES
that he
61
own
birth.
'.
'
'
'
'.
madre
se
name
with certainty
and
AND MONOGRAPHS
ARIAS MONTANO
6x
infer,
in
and
Juan, survived.
Only
if
Dona
Isabel
Gomez
(4)
Relator or Notario.
son,
Document i [1560]).
(5) Carvajal, Document 20: 'por haberse
perdido en la mar una gran multitud dellas
llevandolas a Italia' (Philip II to the Duke
of Alba, March 25, 1568).
(6) Ten years later, in 1578, we may note
that the 300 ducats that Arias Montano took
vajal.
that
HISPANIC NOTES
NOTES
63
was expensive,
p. 150) and the
Life in Flanders
insufficient.
Zayas
'
:
mente en
que yo juro
Duque de
comer pnra mi y dos criados, que con cincuenta escudos mas al mes no puedo vivir '.
como
lo del entretenimiento,
The Ambassador
says
darme
to
the
el
King
'
:
el
(7)
Tomas
Gonzalez.
la historia del
Espana por
la
Apii?tfamie?itos para
lo locante
sits
relacio7ics con
etc.,
in
Me-
AND MONOGRAPHS
ARIAS MONTANO
64
7, p.
327.
ib.,
me hubiera ordenado
me
M. en
sucedio con
las
como
ello
peregrina-
No.
Tomas
16, pp.
Gonzalez, op.
429-32
'
cit.i
Documento
el
en
Diolo a S. M. en Madrid a
dos de Junio de mil quinientos
Irlanda.
veinte y
setenta y cuatro.'
(11)
ib.,
p.
432:
'me
quisieron
enviar
que
le
la
HISPANIC
NOT
F.
NOTES
65
of
King
bread,
'
y no es por
de
falta
They
la tierra
eat
.
little
.
sino
la
gente es
trabajar,
'
'
dad
(ib.,
'
p.
431).
p. 316 Desmownd]
yo
llegue
sazon
en la Isla, con
que
andaba,a
cinco 6 seis mil hombres en compafia y
[cf. p.
habiase sehoreadp de algunas tierras y casque los ingleses le tenian tornados, que
eran suyos de su patrimonio. Enestetienen
tillos
mucha esperanza
los catolicos
'
(ib,, p.
431).
(13)
Tomas
(14)
Gonzalez, op.
cit.,
p. 328.
que
me
'
Puesto
AND MONOGRAPHS
2285-5
ARIAS MONTANO
66
tambien
las fiestas
como
Cf.
me
sobra
obra
p.
'
ni
'
'
p.
lo
5,
1571).
'Tenia
(16) Dociimentos i?iedi/os, p. 335:
insecreta
publica
6
ansimesmo 6 amistad
telligencia
las
hasta
Inglaterra.'
(17)
que se
Dociimentos
Arias
y en
i?ieditos,\i. 151.
Montano was
libros
1569).
of opinion that
Erasmus
condemned
totally.
pp. 168-171
(18) Dociimentos ineditos^
of WestmorEarl
both
the
In
1572
[1570].
Northumberland
of
land and the Countess
(T.
were receiving 200 florins a month.
Gonzalez, op.
cit.,
p. 379.)
HISPANIC
N OT
P:
NOTES
67
la
'
lo
entienden y aun en
no hacen biiena
oscura
'
1571)
'
266 (Dec.
mill
breviaries',
(22)
'
Demas de hacer
19)
al
exquisitos
assi
impresses
la
AND MONOGRAPHS
F 2
ARIAS M O N T A N O
68
Estados y
lialle
mucho
destrozo hecho en
mas
desta
libreria real
que V.
la
de provecho y otras
que no sirven mas de para pergamino viejo,
porque yo di orden a que se comprase todo,
y lo que no es de provecho lo doy a los impresores en el mismo precio casi por que yo
mas.
HISPANIC NOTES
NOTES
he comprado de manera que
lo
me
salen baratisimos.'
69
los
buenos
{Doa(nie?tios viedifos,
p. 176.)
(24)
(25)
Documentos
Doannentos
la
libreria
AND MONOGRAPHS
ARIAS M
tcngo
ONTA N O
libreria
los
la
En
las librerias
Usa de gran
le
Con
167.)
(30)
harta
suma de
HISPANIC
N OT
P:
NOTES
que es agora de Segovia, Covarrubias, tambien habia comprado del en mill escudos,
pasaba por aqui con unos libros que Uevaba
a la reina de Inglaterra con esperanza de
tornar con gran premio, y sucediole que los
soldados enemigos le despojaron en el camino,
y llego aqui con tres compafieros y con sus
libros, y sin una placa, y procuro vender dos
6 tres libros para pasar adelante
y como
pedi'a tan caro por ellos ninguno oso comenzar
a comprarle, y los que deseaban haber algunos
me dieron aviso dello para que yo le tomara
algunos y hiciera precio para ellos.
Yo le
bice llamar y como me conocio tomo contento
y rogome le socorriese con dineros hasta
Inglaterra y le diese cartas para el embajador
de S. M^. que alli esta, que le favoreciese, y
para algunos por el camino, porque se temi'a
de mal tratamiento, estando la tierra tan
Yo le di luego cartas para
revuelta por aca.
el embajador, empero piiscle la dificuldad
que habia en el viaje y el incierto succeso
que con la reina de Inglaterra temia estando
las cosas de aquella isla en el estado que
;
AND MONOGRAPHS
ARIAS M O N T A N O
72
me
nombrase
porque yo no se los
podia pagar por el valor estando fuera de
mi tierra y con poco dinero. Pidiome cuatrocientos escudos.
Pareciome que se ponia
en buena razon, porque cierto los libros valen
largos trescientos escudos. Yo le dije que
no tenia que cien escudos para le dar y
que no queria mas hablar en ello y que
era razon que el con su nccesidad se conformase con la mia, pues le habia yo ya
comprado y hecho comprar en mas de mil
el
precio,
HISPANIC NOTES
NOTES
73
escudos.
mas me
creo que
empleo
ni
Cuando
yo mejor.
los codiciosos
que pensaba
servir con ellos a S. M^. y que no podia
quitar ninguno.
Ellos, que me tenian por
muy sencillo, se espantaron del artificio que
acudieron por parte yo
tuve con
el
les dije
griego y con
ellos.
Yo
les dije
tiempo
{Docuiuentos ineditos^
144
'
Como
Doamtenios
AND MONOGRAPHS
74
ARIAS
M ONTANO
M'l.'),
se
(37)
Doaimentos
im'diios, p. 167.
at six, but
was raised
Document 25.)
(41) Doaimentos
(42) Documentos
to twelve.
z?iedi/os^
(Carvajal,
pp. 342-3.
ineditos^ p. 293.
HISPANIC NOTl^S
NOTES
In
(43)
the
De
hebraicoruin
Hbiorum
(44)
'
En
mande
;
si alguna
incumbia responder
porque a mi no
aquella carta,
me
mayormente
tomando con-
AND
MONOGRA
ARIAS MONTANO
76
rogddoles que
lo
este
interprcte,
apud
literal,
audit bene
omnia
assecutiis est.
si
V. M. entiendc
to Zayas,
la
'
',
mildly says
HISPANIC NOTES
NOTES
77
'
p. 189.)
(47) J/>id.,
ipsum
librum
nam
et
'
profecto
habui
says that he
191
p.
manu.'
in
knew
Istud
ipse
not a
ipsum, istud
his
oculis
vidi
Arias Montano
word of Hebrew.
Document
Document
iii,
35.
37.
p. 19.
(52)
(53)
Documentos
Documentos
in^ditos, p. 273.
me'dilos, p. 274.
dudas de
Doctor, antes
Roma
rie
AND MONOG R A P H S
ARIAS M O N T A N
cl
the
(*
new
no
se sabe
New
Testament
aquclla translacion es la de
si
de Sanctis Pagnino.'
'
la traslacion
(Carvajal,
Document
37, p. 160.)
todas
'
:
Con
las dificuldades
su presencia
'
(Albornoz to
Zayas,
'
Duke
las dudas.'
(Philip
II
to
ayuda'), 304.
(58) Doctiinentos ineditos^ p. 179.
(59) Documentos ineditos, p. 185-6.
(60)
Documentos
ineditos^ p.
147
'
:
Cada
HISPANIC NOTES
NOTES
dia hallo en
^1
cosas que
me mueven a
79
alabar
de su arte y trato
le
ban
mostrado y tenido siempre, a los cuales pudiendo con mucha justida hacer mal jamas
Document OS
En nombrandole al
le tiene.'
Aracena, January
4,
1579 {Doaimentos
de
77ie-
dlfos, p. 377).
Martinez y Grajal han prendido por la Inque por ser nombres tan sehalados
ha causado harta admiracion.'
(Zayas to
quisicion,
AND MONOGRAPHS
ARIAS
So
MONTANO
We
to Andalucia.
know from
Luis de Leon's trial that as early as 1559 the
defniitely
Documentos
J.
68-69,
Fitzmaurice-Kelly,
Fray Lids de
'^^'^'^^
Lt:o;i
Document 53:
Capita accusationis haec sunt
quod adposita fuerit Xantis Pagnini versio, quod ilia
'
quod Vulquod
sunt e Rab-
gatae non
Tractatus
summa
ilh
auctoritas deferatur,
fidei
convellantur,
stabiliuntur
aliis
Versionibus
non
licet
fontes
'
(p.
at Sala
et in
of
LI I
S P
AN
C^
'
Ex hac
TK
ea
NOTES
versantur qui
8l
hasmodo tragoedias
excitarunt.
est, in
publicis lectio-
disputationibus, praedicationibus,
nibus,
et
nemo
Haec sunt
legis
verba
accipiunt ut non
modo
vel praesumat.
quidem
ita
\.\i
aliquid
ejus
punctis
vel
auctoritate
et
detraxerit
apicibus Vulgatae
quae
qui de
sed qui
editionis
Deinde non
clament.
licere
jam
Ego sane
Sacrum
Concilium voluisse
tueri huius editionis auctoritatem cum ob
existimaveram
tumad abolendam
iliius
antiquitatem
num
Versiofidei
minutas vero
de proprietate
et signifi-
AND MONOGRAPHS
2283.5
82
11
catione
cibus
MONTANO
IAS
Hebraeis
ct
minanda
est,
ita
novonim
Veritas
Graeci
sermonisformamdesiderat." Et Hieronimum
Commentariis in Ezcchiel " Cogimur itaqiic
ad Hebraeos recurrere et scientiae veritatcm
de fonte magis quam de rivulis quaerere",
atque haec inter Sacros Codices a Gratiano
Hi vero mordicus tenent solam
fuisse relata.
Vulgatam editioneni incorruptam esse, Hebraeos vero codices et Graecos corruptos
:
potuisse credat
tarn
longe
in
lateque
codicibus
dispersis
tam
multis et
".
Et
Div.
" Praesentia,
Hieronymus in cap. 6 Esiae
inquit, tempora omnia ita exhibent sicut in
:
nuntiaverunt."
Isti vero contra Vulgatam
editionem volunt unicum esse canonem Divi-
haec
norum omnium scriptorum
aliis
non probantur. Res est plena publicae offensionis et quae serpat quotidie longius non
;
HISPANIC NOTES
NOT K S
periculo
sine
multorum
'
83
[ibid.,
170,
pp.
171).
Doaivientos ineditos,
{6d>)
p. 318.
Document 54:
'
Os
'
Carvajal,
p. 169
scribam.
quod
teritur et
omnia
'
De
Centuriis nihil
est
tempus
Consultationibus
solita cunctationeettarditate
Salamanca, Aug.
22,
1574)
Docu-
Lo de las Centurias
329
sera cosa mas larga que V. M. piensa y de
menos efecto de lo que estima.
Aca lo
toman de otra manera que alia por mucho
que yo viviese no creo que en mi vida vere
el fin que esta cosa podni tencr, sin que haya
mas que hacer en ella, y ansi lo entienden
inejitos ineditos^ p.
'
aqui
'
(Arias
Montano
to Zayas,
Rome, Dec.
24, 1575)-
(70)
letter written
mentos
ineditos^ pp.
from
Rome. Docu-
330-339.
AND MONOGRAPHS
G
ARIAS MONTANO
Document
56.
1577).
al
modo
hombre mas
posible,
sabio,
llamo para
mas competence
teniamos
en Espana, Arias
Montano. Llego al Escorial el I de Marzo
de 1577 y estuvo por espacio de diez meees.
El P. Fr. Juan de S. Jeronimo dice que era
" muy buen letrado
y gran teologo y muy
visto en todo genero de sciencias y lenguas,
que
entonces
HISPANIC NOTES
NOTES
arabes,
lemosines,
espanoles,
italianos,
franceses,
alemanes,
Portugueses,
flamencos,
Felipe II le dio el
.
persas y armenos
{ibid.,
titulo de Librero mayor'
pp. 108, 109).
(74) Carvajal, p. 179, Document 63: 'El
.
y quedan todos
los
seis 6
hombres de
letras
y el
llamar tres o cuatro veces, y teniendole mill
no se puede
horas en diversas platicas
negar al Rey la particular aficion y gusto de
favorecer y comunicar hombres insignes
y
asi ha conocido y admirado mucho la particular habilidad y bondad de que Dios ha
dotado a Arias Montano. Manana parte de
aqui cargado de conchas de caracoles, sin
haber probado el pescado de Lisboa.' (Don
Juan de Silva to Philip II.
Lisboa, Jan. 31,
:
1578.)
(75) Doatnietttos ineditos, pp. 398, 399.
AND MONOGRAPHS
ARIAS MONTANO
86
(76) Carvajcil,
176,
p.
Document
62:
Hallo aqui
al
pcro c^ue
400
Em-
'
a letter of October
Montano
was,
9,
In
referred to Portugal in
away which
ditos, p. 183).
Document
61.
(80) Docuiiie?itosmeditos,^.4ii\:
'
Cuando
(81)
Docwnentos
(82) Documejitos
(83)
Yo hube
in editos, p. 374.
ine'di/os, p. 2>7^'
mas
HISPANIC NOTES
NOTES
in
I.
June,
207.
Document 64
tenerle consigo,
'
Justamente desea
aunque
\ se
S.
M.
queja de que
injustamente lo detiene.'
{^%)
(89)
Doanne7itos ineditos,
{Z'])
p. 408.
Leon bramando y
(90)
procurando tragarme, deshonnindome por las
'En Madrid
el
AND MONOGRAPHS
ARIAS M O N
8S
encienden.'
A N O
408.)
(91)
summa
Negotiaque
'
mittebat
[Philip
Angliae
Oratoris,
et
ardua
ei
com-
ex legatione Galliac
II],
Caduceatoris delcga\it.'
Faber
t.
iii
in
his
J. N. Bohl de
Fhncsta de Ri/nas Antigiias,
(93)
abound
in
e'di/os,
pp.
Document
296,
304,
362,
(94) Carvajal,
2:
'El
extraiiamente con
el
materias ex^
les
Carvajal,
Document
132,
p.
379;
30.
[excelentes
'
Albornoz to
?].
or
excepciona-
29, 1569.
(95)
'
Me
opinion,'
March
22,
tiene
Rome,
{Docinnefitos inedifos, p.
1576.
338.)
(96)
He
left
foreign countries.
to
Zayas on March
says (Carvajal,
p.
Arias Montanois
'
Document
j^) that
HISPANIC NOTES
NOTES
89
'.
The
'
'
p.
166),
(97)
Docunientos
ineditos, p. 305.
DocumentOS
ineditos^ p. 345
Recelo
de hacer nuevos conocimientos por causa de
(98)
mi terneza natural, de
pojarme.'
May
(Arias
la cual
'
no puedo dcs-
Montano toZayas,
Escorial,
31, 1577.)
Doaimoitos
(99)
(100)
'
ine'ditos, p. 163.
verdad
la
divina
contra
'
ella,
del
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go
'
p.
Cf.
323.
Documentos
(104)
380, 381,
iniditos, pp.
387, 395.
sentence
'
el
lo
siente.')
(106)
(107)
Documentos
Documeidos
iniditos, p. 352.
ineditos, p.
413:
Es
lo
totalmente otro, y
si
January
si
yo no soy
(Arias
corte.'
Montano
9, 1580.)
06,
84.
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(no) Docinnentos ifiedUos,
(in) Carvajal, Document
91
p. 346.
34,
157:
p.
and
p.
'.
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INDEX
A
Alba,
Duke
of 3,4,
PAGES
...
6, 11,13, 20,
21,30,31, 54, 58
28, 63, 88
38, 84-5
.
12, 13, 14
i,
60-1
47, 61
61, 62
;
educa-
professes in
Order of Santiago, 2
attends Council of
Trent, 2
is appointed Chaplain to Philip II,
2 ; supervises Antwerp edition of Bible, 3-8,
21-6 in Ireland, 5 collects books for the
Escorial, vi, 10-18 ; money-troubles, 19-21,
62-3; in Italy, 26-9, 32-7; sends report on
state of Flanders, 30-31
returns to Spain, 37
catalogues Escorial library, 38-9, 84-5 ; in
Portugal, 40-43 ; at La Pena, 44-8
returns
to Madrid, 48
attends Synod at Toledo, 50
returns to Andalucia, 50
founds Chair of
Latin at Aracena, 51 ; death at Seville, 51
character, 52-9
Latin works, 53
Arias Montano (Benito) the elder
i
Arras, Bishop of
54
tion at Seville,
at Alcala, 2
.....
......
.
Augustine, St.
Ayala, see Perez de Ayala.
35
B
Beer (Rudolf)
Bohl de Faber (Juan Nicolas)
.
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88
'
94
ARIAS MONTANO
PAGES
......
......
.......
.....
.....
....
Cano (Francisco)
40
Carlos, Prince
Carvajal, sec Gonzalez Carvajal.
42
80
Cisncros, sec
Ximenez do Cisneros.
Clement
Coria, Bishop of
25
40
i^
34
3
D
Delfino, Cardinal
Desmond, Earl of
......
.......
.....
54
.65
Doetsch (C.)
vi
Elizabeth,
Queen of England
4, 5,
Erasmus
Espes (Gucrau de)
F
Fuentiduenas (Pedro)
....
15
66
6
34
G
Gomez
(^Isabel)
61, 62
v,
57, 49
.....
....
.....
.
.61
79
27, 28, 34
5, 6,
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INDEX
95
PAGES
H
Hosius, Cardinal
...
34
J
v, 35,
60
80
Jerome, St
L
Leon (Luis de)
......
.....
.14
....
......61
M
Mann
TJohn)
Minhoca (Francisca)
20
....
N
Northumberland, Countess of
Niiuez (Ana)
.
37
79
Orange, Prince of
.
Ortiz de Urizar (Diego)
Oslo, see Hosius.
40
.66
.51
.62
5>
64
54
^
.....
P
Pacheco, Cardinal
28
Pagnino, S
34
Perez de Ayala (Martin^ Bishop of Segovia 3, 86
Philip II of Spain v, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13,
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26. 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 36,
37, 38, 41, 42, 47, 48, 49, 54, 65, 85, 89
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^.
PAGES
PiusV
3^
3,7, 8, 10, 13, 20, 21, 22
Plantin (Christophe)
29, 53, 6r
R
Requesens (Luis
cic)
.31
....
Covarrubias
Silva (Juan de)
Sirleto, Cardinal
.
Song
40, 41
o/Sorio-s,
The
89
52
T
Tacitus
Talmud, The
U
Urizar, see Ortiz de Urizar.
V
Vega (Lope Felix
de)
60
Westmorland, Earl of
X
Ximenez de Cisneros
(Francisco), Cardinal 3,
7, 9. 13, 19,
sl-
Z
20, 24, 27, 31,
34, 36, 37, 38, 44, 47, 49, 50, 57, 58, 63
Zuiiiga y Requesens (Juan)
.
23, 26, 28, 63
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