biography
| name: |
Juan de los Ángeles
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known as Fray
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pronunciation:
[khwan thay los
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1536–1609)
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| biography:
| Mystical writer, born in Oropesa, Toledo, C Spain. He studied at Alcalá and was entrusted with high office in the Franciscan Order. His Triumphos del amor de Dios (Medina del Campo, 1590) owing a good deal to Plato's views on love, as well as to St Bonaventure and Sabunde, was revised and abridged as Lucha espiritual y amorosa entre Dios y el alma (1600). His Diálogos de la conquista del espiritual y secreto reyno de Dios (2 vols, 1595) were influenced by the N European mystics, above all by Ruysbroeck and Tauler. His style is perhaps inferior only to that of Luis de León in De los nombres de Cristo. |
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