Juan Lorenzo Palmireno (

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: Joannes Laurentius Palmireno; 1524–1579) was an Aragonese humanist, playwright and educator.

Philip II of Spain Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...

called him the most learned man in his kingdom.

Biography

Juan Lorenzo Palmireno was born in

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. Professor of Rhetoric and Greek at the

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from 1556 to 1560, he was appointed Professor at the

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in 1560. He also graduated in medicine from Valencia. In 1570 he returned to his village home, organizing grammar classes there. From 1572 until his death in 1579 he was again Professor at Valencia.Palmireno, Juan Lorenzo
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Works

* ''Aphtonii Clarissimi Rhetoris Progymnasmata'' (1552) * ''De vera et facili imitatione Ciceronis'' (Zaragoza,1560) * ''Enchiridion Graecae Linguae'' (Lyon, 1558; Valencia, Mey, 1561) * ''De copia rerum et artificio rhetorico libellus'' (Valencia, Juan Mey, 1564) * ''Rhetorica prolegomena'' (Valencia, Juan Mey,1564) * ''Rhetoricae. Pars secunda in duos libros distributa'' (Valencia, 1565) * ''Tertia et ultima pars Rhetoricae Laurentii Palmireni'' (Valencia, Juan Mey, 1566) * ''Prima pars rhetoricae'' (Valencia, Juan Mey, 1567) * ''El Estudioso de Aldea'' (1568) * ''Nebrija, Antonio de. Libro IV Introducciones latinae'' (Valencia, Pedro de Huete, 1571) * ''De arte dicendi libri quinque'' (Valencia, 1573) * ''Descuidos de los latinos interpretando los comentarios de César'' (Valencia, 1573) * ''El latino de repente'' (Valencia, Pedro de Huete, 1573) (containts ''Eloquentia iuvenilis y De vera et facili'') * ''Rhetoricae Laurentii Palmireni liber quartus, in quo de inventione partium orationis disputatur'' (Valencia, Pedro de Huete, 1573) * ''Vocabulario del humanista'' (Valencia, Pedro de Huete,1573) * ''Phrases Ciceronis obscuriores in Hispanicam linguam conversae... Eiusdem Oratio post reditum in Academia Valentina'' (Valencia, Pedro de Huete, 1574) * ''Campi eloquentiae in quibus... ratio declamandi, orationes, praefationes, epistolae... continentur'' (Valencia, Pedro de Huete, 1574) * ''Eloquentia iuvenilis'' (Valencia, 1578) * ''El Estudioso cortesano'' (Valencia, Pedro de Huete, 1578) * ''Rhetoricae Laurentii Palmireni liber tertius et ultimus, in quo de inventione, copia rerum, dispositione, memoria et actione disputatur'' (Valencia, Pedro de Huete, 1578) * ''Dilucida conscribendi epistolas ratio'' (Valencia, 1585)

References

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