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Updated: May 27, 2025
It is open to criticism solely on the ground that Luis de Leon chose his agent badly. To this criticism the real answer is that Luis de Leon had to employ what agents he could, and that nobody but Arboleda, who was not above flattering his old master, was available at the time of his mission to Seville.
It would appear that much of Montoya's second-hand information came from another Augustinian, Francisco de Arboleda, who had once been a student of Luis de Leon's, and had been entrusted by the prisoner with the delicate mission of collecting from certain theologians in Seville opinions favourable to Luis de Leon's views upon the Vulgate. This very sensible precaution scandalized Montoya.
Arboleda gives the impression of being a dullard, and this is pretty much the description of him by another member of the Augustinian order Pedro de Rojas, son of the Marqués de Pozas and afterwards Bishop of Astorga and Osuna. Luis de Leon apparently agreed with Rojas in his estimate of Arboleda's ability, and this may account for his comparative leniency to the poor numbskull.
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