This estimate was printed in 1599, eight years after Luis de Leon's death and one year after Philip II's death. Making some allowance for the partiality of an admirer, Pacheco's description may stand. A dry contemporary chronicler, like Luis Cabrera de Córdoba,[262] after paying tribute to Luis de Leon's intellectual gifts and heroic courage in adversity, speaks of his death as a national loss. Even in his lifetime Luis de Leon was recognized by men of exceptional genius as one of themselves. His poems, which were not published till forty years after his death, must have been handed about in manuscript long before. In 1585 Cervantes in his _Galatea_ introduced Luis de Leon into the _Canto de Caliope_. It cannot well be maintained that Cervantes had been impressed by Luis de Leon's Latin treatises, by _De los nombres de Cristo_, and by _La perfecta casada_. The _Canto de Caliope_ records the names of those only whom Cervantes considered to be eminent poets--masters _en la alegre sciencia dela poesia_--and hence it is to the poet that he refers when he writes in his 84th stanza: Quisiera rematar mi dulce canto en tal sazon pastores, con loaros un ingenio que al mundo pone espanto y que pudiera en estasis robaros. En el cifro y recojo todo quanto he mostrado hasta aqui, y he de mostraros Fray Luys de Leon el que digo a quien yo reverencio, adoro, y sigo. IV [Footnote 189: Bartolomé José Gallardo, _Ensayo de una biblioteca española de libros raros y curiosos_ (Madrid, 1863-66-88-89), vol. IV, col. 1328: 'En unos apuntes cronológicos que hacia en Salamanca un curioso (jesuita?) á fines del siglo XVI, fol. 23 de un tomo de _Papeles varios_, en folio, se lee: 'Año de 76, Mártes 23 de diciembre dia de San Dámaso, dieron por libre a _fr. Luis_ sin pena. Y donde a 30 de diciembre entró en Salamanca a las tres de la tarde con atabales, trompetas y gran acompañamiento de Caballeros, Doctores, Maestros, &c.'] [Footnote 190: He is clearly wrong in stating that Luis de Leon was set free on December 23. We have already seen that Luis de Leon presented two applications in writing on December 15. From the nature of these applications, it is a fair inference that he was free when he made them.] [Footnote 191: Especially as the fact is confirmed by a contemporary Augustinian, Fray Juan Quijano: see Blanco García, _op. cit._, p. 206, _n._ 1.] [Footnote 192: This date is given on the authority of the anonymous writer quoted by Gallardo, _op. cit._, col. 1328: 'Y lunes _adelante_ le presentó el Comisorio al Claustro, para que se le diese su proprio lugar, honra y cátedra de _Durando_. Él no la quiso y la Universidad cedió 200 ducados de partido.' The date in this case is corroborated by a summons from the Rector of the University: see P. Fr. Luis G. Alonso Getino, O.P., _Vida y procesos del maestro Fr. Luis de León_ (Salamanca, 1907), p. 244.]