Pedro Juan Núñez (

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: Petrus Joannes Nunnesius or Valentinus Nunnesius; 1525–1602) was a

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and educator active during the Spanish Golden Age. He is famous for his rhetorical treatises based on Hermogenes' rhetorical works.

Life

Núñez graduated with a

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from the

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in 1546. After graduation, he worked at the University of Valencia as a chair in Greek. Starting in 1550 he studied under

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in Paris. Núñez returned to Valencia in 1552 to take a position as a chair in Rhetoric. He also taught Grammar and Latin. While there he composed ''Rhetoricae institutionis libri quinque'' (1552), a paraphrase of the four works of the Hermogenean corpus, at the age of 27. Pedro Juan Pepinyá, a famous Jesuit orator, was one of his students. In 1557 he left with Juan Lorenzo Palmireno to work at the

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, but in 1563 returned yet again to the University of Valencia, where he continued to publish on Greek language and rhetoric.

Works

* ''Artificium orationis Ciceronis pro Caio Rabirio perduellionis reo'' (1551) * ''Oratio de causis obscuritatis Aristoteleae'' (1554) * ''Epitheta M. Tullii Ciceronis collecta'' (1556) * ''Rhetoricae institutionis libri quinque'' (1556) ** Critical edition: Ferran Grau Codina. ''Las retóricas de Pedro Juan Núñez (ediciones y manuscritos).'' Dissertation, University of Valencia, 1994. * ''De situ orbis explanationes in Dionysium Afrum'' (1562) * ''Petitio ad Pontificem Maximum Pium V pro Academia Ilerdensi'' (1562) * ''De ratione interpretandi aliorum scripta'' (1570) * ''Explanatio in Dionysium Periegetam de situ orbis'' ** Critical edition: Paulino Pandiella Gutiérrez. ''La'' Explanatio in Dionysium Periegetam de situ orbis ''de Pedro Juan Núñez. Edición crítica y estudio introductorio.'' Dissertation, University of Oviedo, 2018. * ''Alphabetum graecum'' (1571) * ''Tabulae institutionum rhetoricarum'' (1574) * ''Libellus de mutatione linguaese Graecae in Latinam'' * ''Typus institutionum Grammaticarum Etymologiae et sentaxeoos lingua Graecae'' (1577) * ''Phrynichi epitomae dictionum atticarum'' (1586) * ''De Aristotelis doctrina orationes philosophicae tres trium insignium Valentinorum'' (1591, with Bartolome Jose Pascual and Juan Bautista Monllor) * ''Progymnasmata, idest, Praeludia quaedam oratoria ex progumansmatis potissimum Aphthonii'' (1596) (published in Mexico City as well) * ''Ratio brevis et expedita conscribendi genera epistolarum'' (1602) * ''Institutionis rhetoricae: ex progumannsmatis protissinaum Aphthonii atque ex Hermegis'' ic''arte dictatae'' (1628) (1577) * ''Oratio habita in Academia Valentina ad Philippum III, Margaritam Austicam, reges Albertum et Isabellam, Flandriae duces, qui praesentes scholis adstiterunt'' * ''Ratio imitandi eandem periodum'' ** Critical edition: Victoria Pineda. "LA RATIO IMITANDI DE PEDRO JUAN NÚÑEZ". ''Romanische Forschungen''. 105 (3/4), 1993, pp. 302–314.

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