biography
pronunciation:
[mal lahra]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1524–71)
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| biography:
| Humanist, born in Sevilla, SW Spain. He studied with Hernán Núñez in Salamanca and founded the important Escuela de Humanidades y Gramática. Though Mal Lara made his reputation as a teacher, not as a writer, he compiled La Philosophia vulgar (1568), an imitation of the Adagia of Erasmus. This collection of proverbs, apologues, and anecdotes was in print for many years and widely quoted, usually without attribution. La hermosa Psyche, a manuscript in the National Library in Madrid, deals with the familiar Greek myth of Psyche and Cupid, and has been edited in part (El libro quinto de la Psyche, Salamanca, 1947) by M Gasparini, author of the standard Cinquecento spagnolo: Juan de Mal Lara (1943). |
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