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Mariana, Juan de

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Person Born Died Gender Person ID
Juan de Mariana Talavera 1536 Madrid 1624 M P1142

Instrument(s) Professional group Social status Social sphere Why is the person listed?
vihuela Cleric Ecclesiastical Church Author Author - poet, playwright

Years active Place active Century Region
Roma, Paris,Toledo 17cent/1/early Castilla
Biographical information

Juan de Mariana, also known as Father Mariana (1536 – 17 February 1624), was a Spanish Jesuit priest, Scholastic, historian, and member of the Monarchomachs.
Juan de Mariana was born in Talavera, Toledo, Spain. He studied at the Complutense University of Alcalá de Henares, and was admitted at the age of seventeen into the Society of Jesus. In 1561 he went to teach theology in Rome, reckoning among his pupils Robert Bellarmine, afterwards cardinal; then passed into Sicily; and in 1569 he was sent to Paris, where his expositions of the writings of Thomas Aquinas attracted large audiences. In 1574, owing to ill health, he obtained permission to return to Spain; the rest of his life being passed at the Jesuits' house in Toledo in vigorous literary activity. He died in Madrid. (...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Mariana acc. 16/01/15

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Source documents
Date Document
1609 Juan de Mariana, Tratado contra los juegos públicos.
1601 Juan de Mariana, Historia general de España.


Bibliography
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marianaHGE Mariana, Juan de. Historia general de España 2 vols. Toledo, 1601.
piymargalOBR Pi y Margal, Francisco (ed.). Obras del P. Juan de Mariana, 2 vols. Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Españoles 30-31, 1912-1919.
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