Fray Luis de León, the great humanist scholar of the Spanish Golden Age, one of the sages of Salamanca University, was condemned by the Inquisition for translating the Song of Solomon and spent four years in prison before being allowed to return to his lectern, where he began his first lecture with the phrase, "Decíamos ayer": "As we were saying yesterday..."
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Inauguration for the Ages
Artist John Mavroudis' cover illustration for this week's print edition
of The Nation imagines the US presidential inauguration as one witnessed not in flesh and blood, but in the bonds of justice and peace. List of names and a matching diagram are here.
