Medrano Academy

[5] The street of Leganitos, which runs from the Plazuela de Santo Domingo to the outskirts of the town between the North and West, is a long avenue of regular buildings, it is mainly used for private residences.

[6] Many of the most illustrious names in the Spanish Golden Age aspired to share their voices at the literary gatherings hosted by the Medrano Academy.

These meetings often attracted nobles, with Medrano himself serving as the Academy's president, while a prominent literary figure fulfilled the role of "secretary".

[10] José Sánchez suggests that it likely started around 1607 under the leadership of Félix Arias Girón, son of the Count of Puñonrostro, though details about this early phase are obscure.

I summoned so many flourishing minds to the academies ... [these] individuals are famous in all poems and celebrated in all sciences, subjects, and faculties, and are supreme objects of admiration ... to those I acknowledge as my superiors, [I] ask forgiveness from those whom I have not named.