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He Translated a Love Poem - Prison Followed Four Years Later
A friar in Salamanca translates the Song of Solomon; one handwritten page could ruin him. What would you have done with a forbidden translation?
He Translated a Love Poem - Prison Followed Four Years Later
In this episode, we follow the moment a private act-a Spanish translation of the Song of Solomon-sets a professor and Augustinian friar on a collision course with the Spanish Inquisition. How did a single manuscript travel from a cousin’s hands to formal charges, and what choices did the people around him make?
Person: Fray Luis de León
Date: 1561 (translation), arrest 27 March 1572…
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