Those solemn heights but to the stars are known, But to the stars, and the cold lunar beams: Alone the sun arises, and alone Spring the great streams.
[Footnote 263: They must have been known to the dedicatee of the _Noche serena_, whom I am inclined to identify with Diego de Olarte who appeared before the Valladolid tribunal (_Documentos inéditos_, vol. XI, pp. 301-302). But the only positive evidence on this head is given by Francisco de Salinas who testified 'que era amigo del dicho fray Luis de Leon, el cual venia muchas veces á casa deste testigo, y oyó deste testigo la especulativa, y comunicaba con este testigo cosas de poesía y otras cosas del arte' (_Documentos inéditos_, vol. XI, pp. 302-303).]
[Footnote 264: In the early editions--those of 1583, 1585, 1587, 1595, and 1603--_De los nombres de Cristo_ and _La Perfecta Casada_ are bound up together. Each treatise has a separate pagination in all five cases.]
[Footnote 265: Luis de Leon's mother was 'Inés de Valera, hija de Juan de Valera, vecino que fué de la villa de Belmente, escudero, que vivia de su hacienda' (_Documentos inéditos_, vol. X, pp. 170-171). The substitution of Varela for Valera, or vice versa, is easy in Spanish. An example of such a substitution in the case of Luis de Leon's mother is given by Blanco García, _Fr. Luis de León_, p. 24, _n._ 1. Blanco García mentions a tombstone in the monastery of San Jerónimo at Granada with the following inscription:
'_En esta capilla está enterrado el noble hidalgo el Lic. Lope de Leon del Cº del Rey nuestro Señor, Oidor que fué de Granada, y Asistente de Sevilla: falleció á 24 de Julio de 1562 años: y Doña Inés Barela_ (sic), _y Alarcon, su mujer, dotó esta capilla para entierro suyo y de sus descendientes._'
The name of Luis de Leon's maternal grandmother was Mencía Alvarez Osorio. From these circumstances, it appears possible that some relationship existed between the dedicatee of _La Perfecta Casada_ and the author of that treatise. Luis de Leon had four maternal uncles, three of whom were laymen--Francisco de Valera, Bernardino de Valera, and Cristóbal de Alarcon, 'capitan que fué en Italia'. All three had died before April 15, 1572 (_Documentos inéditos_, vol. X, p. 181).