biography
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López de Villalobos, Francisco
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pronunciation:
[lohpeth thay veel
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1473–1549)
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| biography:
| Didactic prose writer of Jewish ancestry, born in Toledo or Zamora. He was court physician to the Duke of Alba, Fernando ‘el Católico’, and Carlos V. His Libro intitulado Los Problemas (1543) is divided into two parts: one on astronomy and the other on men and morals. It includes witty essays on las tres grandes (la gran parlería, la gran porfía, la gran risa: ‘garrulity, stubborness, and laughter’), in which his targets include old men who marry young girls, old women who wear make-up, and insincere laughter. Los problemas appear with his influential translation from the Amphitrou of Plautus (1515), in the Biblioteca de Autores Españoles, Vol. 36 (1855). His Glosa de los dos primeros libros de Plinio (1524) sent as a gift to the greatest scholar of the day, Hernán Núñez, caused an acrimonious controversy. Villalobos also wrote a didactic poem of 500 stanzas in arte mayor as a textbook on medicine: El sumario de la medecina (1498). |
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