biography
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Núñez de Toledo y Guzmán, Hernán
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known as El Pinciano
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pronunciation:
[noonyeth thay to<
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| lived:
| (1475–1553)
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| biography:
| Classical scholar, born in Valladolid, NWC Spain. He gained his nickname from Pincia, the ancient name of his birthplace, and El Comendador Griego from his accomplishment of receiving one of the 24 scholarships available to Spaniards at the Collegio di San Clemente in Bologna (1490–8). On his return he was appointed tutor to the Mendoza family in Granada until Cardinal Ximénez de Cisneros sought his co-operation in preparing the Complutensian Bible. He occupied the chair of rhetoric at Alcalá, and subsequently that of Greek at Salamanca left vacant on the death of Nebrija, and also taught Hebrew. His Greek scholarship was surpassed in the Iberian peninsula only by that of the Portuguese humanist Arias Barbosa (d.1540), Nebrija's colleague at Salamanca. Núñez' critical editions of Seneca (1529) and Pliny (1544) were well received in humanist circles throughout Europe, and he was also responsible for an edition of Pomponius Mela. He made a Spanish version of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini's Latin history of Bohemia. In his youth he published a confused, inadequate commentary on Juan de Mena, entitled Las CCC del famosísimo poeta Juan de Mena (1490) and also left a collection Refranes, o Proverbios en romance (1555). |
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