biography
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Tamayo de Vargas, Tomás
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pronunciation:
[tamayoh thay v
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| male
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| lived:
| (1588–1641)
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| biography:
| Scholar, bibliographer, and historian, born in Madrid, Spain. He studied and taught at Toledo University, and wrote a number of minor works on the important families and religious history of Toledo. In 1616 he began an acrimonious controversy with Pedro Mantuano, who published an extensive and detailed attack on the Spanish history of Mariana in Advertencia a la Historia de Iuan de Mariana...En que se enmienda gran parte de la Historia de España (Milan, 1606). Tamayo's reply was Historia general de España del padre doctor Juan de Mariana defendida (Toledo, 1616). Tamayo went to Venice as secretary to the Spanish ambassador in 1621; when he returned he was made a council-member of the Inquisition. He prepared an edition of the works of Garcilaso, entitled Garcilaso de la Vega, natural de Toledo, Príncipe de los Poetas Castellanos (1622), and from 1625 was official historian of Castilla. As a bibliographer he compiled one of the most useful works to appear before the time of Nicolás Antonio: Junta de libros la mayor que España ha visto en su lengua which survives in three manuscripts, but not in a private version, though according to Vanegas it was published in Madrid in 1624. |
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