Gabriel Patricio Álvarez de Toledo y Pellicer de Tovar (15 March 1662—17 January 1714) was a Spanish poet, historian and theologian. He was a humanist, interested in philosophy and philology. He knew classical, semitic and modern languages, among French, Italian and German. He was the senior librarian of king

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, and a member of the Secretary of State. He belonged to the

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and was one of the founders of the

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. There are two periods in his life, one profane and the other religious. His poetic works appeared after his death in Madrid in 1744.

Biography

Don Gabriel Patricio Álvarez de Toledo, was the son of Francisco Álvarez de Toledo, a native of Bragança,

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, who belonged to the

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, and Luisa María Pellicer de Tobar, a native of

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. He was a native of

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, a descendant of the

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, one of the most illustrious families of the Spanish, and Portugues nobility. He was a founder Member of the

in 1713, Secretary of the King of Spain and a Knight of the Military Order of Alcantara. Of Portuguese descent, he was a true

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, interested in philosophy and philology.

Poetic work

Some of Don Gabriel's poetic works were printed in 1744 by

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, Professor of Mathematics and astronomer at the

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, in

, under the title ''La Burromaquia'', (something like "Treatise on the things related to Donkeys"), accompanied by some 17th-century mystical style religious poems.

Main works

*1713, ''Historia de la Iglesia y del mundo, desde su creación al diluvio''. *1744, ''Obras pósthumas poéticas, con la Burromaquia''.

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