miguel unamuno said ....
It is said in Salamanca that the day he returned to the University,
Unamuno began his lecture by saying "As we were saying yesterday
..."
This was
as Fray Luis de León had done in the same place four centuries
before, as though he had not been absent at all.
Miguel Unamuno (1864 – 31 December 1936)
Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca [the Spanish equivalent of Oxford or Cambridge].
Rector at Salamanca University from 1900 to 1924 and 1930 to 1936.
1924, Unamuno removed from his university chairs by dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera, over the protests of other Spanish intellectuals.
In exile until 1930, he returned to Salamanca as Rector until 1936. Quarrelling with Nationalist general Millán Astray, he was removed from his university post and put under house arrest. Unamuno died ten weeks later.
Fray Luis de León (1527 – 1591)
In 1571 Dominican professors Bartolomé de Medina and Castro put forth
seventeen propositions to the Inquisition documenting Fray Luis'
allegedly heretical opinions. His translation into Spanish and
commentary of the Song of Solomon was the biggest evidence presented
for their case against him. Another charge touched on his criticizing
the text of the Vulgate.
As a result, he was imprisoned at Valladolid from 27 March 1572 until
December 1576
At the end of 1576, the tables turned, and on 11 December Fray Luis
was cleared of all charges and released from prison with an
admonishment to be more careful and reserved in his publications and
speech. He returned to Salamanca on 30 December in triumph.
Tradition has it that he began his university lecture on 29 January
1577, his first after returning from four years' imprisonment, with
the words Dicebamus hesterna die ("As we were saying yesterday....").
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