humanist
Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential and agency of human beings. It considers human beings the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.
The meaning of the term "humani ...
who contributed to the development of the Jesuit '' Cursus Conimbricensis'' commentaries on
Aristotle
Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...
Elche
Elche ( ca-valencia, Elx) is a city and municipality of Spain, belonging to the province of Alicante, in the Valencian Community. According to 2014 data, Elche has a population of 228,647 inhabitants, He began his studies at a school in Oriheula, and later went to the University of Valencia where
Juan Luis Vives
Juan Luis Vives March ( la, Joannes Lodovicus Vives, lit=Juan Luis Vives; ca, Joan Lluís Vives i March; nl, Jan Ludovicus Vives; 6 March 6 May 1540) was a Spanish (Valencian) scholar and Renaissance humanist who ...
had previously studied. There, Pepinyá studied under
Pedro Juan Núñez
Pedro Juan Núñez (Latin: Petrus Joannes Nunnesius or Valentinus Nunnesius; 1525–1602) was a Valencian humanist and educator active during the Spanish Golden Age. He is famous for his rhetorical treatises based on Hermogenes' rhetorical wor ...
; his other instructors included
Juan de Celaya
Juan de Celaya (Valencia, c.1490 – 6 December 1558) was a Spanish mathematician, physicist, cosmologist, philosopher and theologian. He was a member of the so-called Calculators, using ideas from Merton College. He is known for his work on motion ...
, Miguel Hieronymus, Jerome Ledesma, and Juan Blasius Navarro. Pepinyá received his
bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...
on July 6, 1541. He and his brother Luis joined the
Jesuit order
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on September 30, 1551. He went to teach
rhetoric
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
at the Jesuit college in Lisbon, where he taught alongside
Cypriano de Soarez Cypriano Soarez y Herrera, S.J. (1524–1593) was a sixteenth-century Spanish Jesuit who wrote ''De Arte Rhetorica'', the first Jesuit rhetoric textbook.The De Arte Rhetorica (1568) by Cyprian Soarez, S.J.: A Translation with Introduction and Notes. ...
. He regularly gave speeches, including the inaugural address at the
University of Coimbra
The University of Coimbra (UC; pt, Universidade de Coimbra, ) is a Public university, public research university in Coimbra, Portugal. First established in Lisbon in 1290, it went through a number of relocations until moving permanently to Coi ...
in October 1555. He was ordained a priest by Bishop João Nunes Barreto, Patriarch of Ethiopia the same month. He also delivered the funeral oration for Prince Luis, the brother of
King John III of Portugal
John III ( pt, João III ; 7 June 1502 – 11 June 1557), nicknamed The Pious (Portuguese: ''o Piedoso''), was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1521 until his death in 1557. He was the son of King Manuel I and Maria of Aragon, the th ...
, in 1555. He then served as court preacher to the Queen from 1557 to 1559. In 1561 he went to help with the Jesuit College in Rome and befriended the Italian humanist
Paolo Manuzio
Paulus Manutius ( it, Paolo Manuzio; 1512–1574) was a Venetian printer with a humanist education, the third son of the famous printer Aldus Manutius and his wife Maria Torresano.
Life
As a young man, Paulus Manutius moved to Venice to get an ...
. In 1563 he was working on his own rhetoric treatise. His rules for student awards were incorporated into the ''
Ratio Studiorum
The ''Ratio atque Institutio Studiorum Societatis Iesu'' (''Method and System of the Studies of the Society of Jesus''), often abbreviated as ''Ratio Studiorum'' (Latin: ''Plan of Studies''), was a document that standardized the globally influen ...
.'' In 1565 he made a revision of Soarez's ''De arte rhetorica.'' At the request of Francesco Adorno, he wrote ''De ratione liberorum instituendorum literis Graecis et Latinis'' (''How to Teach Children Latin and Greek''). Pepinyá disagreed strongly with the rhetorical innovations of
Peter Ramus
Petrus Ramus (french: Pierre de La Ramée; Anglicized as Peter Ramus ; 1515 – 26 August 1572) was a French humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A Protestant convert, he was a victim of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Early life ...
. Pepinyá died in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...