 Following the testimony of Las Casas's biographer Antonio de Remesal, tradition has it that Las Casas studied a "licentiate" at Salamanca, but this is never mentioned in Las Casas's own writings.As a young man, in 1507, he journeyed to Rome where he observed the Festival of Flutes.With his father, Las Casas immigrated to the island of Hispaniola in 1502, on the expedition of Nicolás de Ovando.