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Theologian and unique scholar of the Spanish Golden Age, he was born in Belmonte in 1527 and died in Madrigal de las Altas Torres in 1591. Religious and Renaissance humanist, linked to the school of Salamanca, where a large bronze statue in front of the plateresque doorway of The University remembers him, he was imprisoned by the Inquisition in Valladolid, on the street that today bears his name, and later acquitted. The Augustinian stood out as a poet, and is considered one of the great authors of religious poetry in history, although his bibliography also includes works such as On the Names of Christ or The Perfect Married , as well as translations and commentaries. in Latin to different books of the Bible.