 This was not a success, because the treasure ships he sent back from Panama to Spain thereby lost the protection of the French and were vulnerable to the English established in Jamaica.He was an educated and cultured man, and a man of letters.He translated the hymns of Saint Thomas Aquinas and wrote the dramas "El Mejor Escudo de Perseo" and "Triunfos del Amor y del Poder" and the comic sketch "A cantar un villancico".