biography
pronunciation:
[abreel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1530–c.95)
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| biography:
| Renaissance humanist, born in Alcaraz de la Mancha, near Toledo, C Spain. He wrote in Castilian as well as in Latin, and for over 25 years taught Greek and Latin in Saragossa University, writing his own grammars and teachers' guides, Latini idiomatis docendi ac discendi methodus (1561) and De lingua latina vel de arte grammatica (1567). He also wrote a Greek and Latin grammar in Spanish. His translations from Greek (Aristotle, Plato, Aeschines, Demosthenes, Euripedes, Aristophanes) and Latin (Cicero, Terence) enriched contemporary Spanish culture and revived classical modes of thought and feeling. |
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