I am Miquel Jeroni Ledesma, Professor of Greek at the University of Valencia.

I was born in Valencia thirty years ago into an educated family. My father, Jerome Ledesma, was the amanuensis to Joan Andreu Estray, who was, in turn, a disciple of the famous Catilian grammarianAntonio Nebrija. I studied arts and medicine at the Estudi General de Valencia and Greek at the University of Alcalá, where I discovered the wonderful thoughts of Erasmus of Rotterdam. I tried to introduce their ideas about humanism at the University of Valencia, where I work as a professor of Greek and medicine, but unfortunately our perpetual rector, Joan of Salaya, is a staunch defender of thescholastic tradition. I hope this situation will change with the arrival at court of the Marquise ValenciaMencia de Mendoza, who soon will marry the widower of Germana de Foix, Duke of Calabria Ferdinand of Aragon. Doña Mencia has been taught by humanists as famous as Joan Lluís Vives and perhaps, with his support, Valencia may become a great center for the dissemination of the ideas of Erasmus, in the same way as Antwerp, Paris and Venice.