Sebastian Fox Morcillo (1526?–1559?), a Spanish

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and

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, was born in

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between 1526 and 1528. Around 1548 he studied in

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. Following the example of the Spanish Jew Judas Abarbanel, he published commentaries on

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and

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, in which he endeavoured to reconcile their teachings. In 1559 he was appointed tutor to Don Carlos, son of Philip II, but he was lost at sea on his way to

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to take up the post. His best-known work is ''De imitatione, seu de informandi styli ratione libri II'' (1554), a

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between the author and his brother under the pseudonyms of Gaspar and Francisco Enuesia.

Works

*''In Topica Ciceronis paraphrasis et scholia'', 1550, 8vo *''De imitatione, seu de informandi styli ratione libri II'', Amberes, 1554 *''De naturæ philosophia seu de Platonis et Aristotelis consensione libri quinque'', 1554 *''In Platonis Timaeum commentarii'', 1554 *''Ethices philosophiae compendium ex Platone, Aristotele aliisque optimos quibusque auctoribus collectum'', 1554 *''De Philosophici studii ratione'', Lovaina, 1554 *''De naturae philosophia seu de Platonis et Aristotelis consensione, libri V'', Lovaina 1554 *''De juventute'', Basilea, 1556 *''De regni regisque institutione libri III'', Amberes, 1556 ** *''Comentatio in decem Platonis libros de Republica'', 1556 *''De demonstratione ejusque necessitate et vi liber I'', Basilea, 1556 *''De honore'', Basilea, 1556 *''De usu et exercitatione Dialecticae'', 1556 *''De historiae institutione dialogus'', 1557 (Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, ''Teoría de la historia y teoría política en el siglo XVI''. Alcalá de Henares: UP, 2000)

References

Bibliography

* Cantarero de Salazar, Alejandro.-«Reexamen crítico de la biografía del humanista Sebastián Fox Morcillo (c. 1526- c. 1560)», ''Studia Aurea'', 9, 2015, págs. 531–564. http://studiaaurea.com/article/view/v9-cantarero * Cantarero de Salazar, Alejandro, «La mimesis conversacional en el corpus de diálogos de Sebastián Fox Morcillo: introducción a su estudio literario», ''eHumanista'', 29, 2015, 305–341. * Cantarero de Salazar, Alejandro, «Aproximación a la tradición editorial de la obra de Sebastián Fox Morcillo: Primer repertorio tipobibliográfico», ''Camenae'', 17, 2015, 1-31. http://saprat.ephe.sorbonne.fr/revue-en-ligne-camenae-16.htm * Cortijo Ocaña, Antonio, ''Teoría de la Historia y Teoría política en Sebastián Fox Morcillo. «De Historia Institutione Dialogus»/«Diálogo de la enseñanza de la Historia»''. Alcalá de Henares, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 2000. * Espigares Pinilla, Antonio, ''La cuestión del honor y la gloria en el humanismo del siglo XVI a través del "Gonsalus" de Ginés de Sepúlveda y de "De Honore" de Fox Morcillo'', Tesis doctoral, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1994. * Espigares Pinilla, Antonio, ''"De honore". Estudio y traducción'', Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2017. * González de la Calle, Pedro Urbano, ''Sebastián Fox Morcillo. Estudio histórico-crítico de sus doctrinas'', Madrid, Imprenta del Asilo de Huérfanos del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, 1903. * Pike, Ruth, «De converso origin of Sebastián Fox Morcillo», ''Hispania. A journal devoted to the interest of the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese'', 51, 1968, 4, 877–882 * Pineda, Victoria, ''La imitación como arte en el siglo XVI español (Con una edición y traducción del diálogo "De imitatione" de Sebastián Fox Morcillo)'', Sevilla, Diputación Provincial de Sevilla, 1994. {{DEFAULTSORT:Fox Morcillo, Sebastian 1520s births 1559 deaths People from Seville Latin commentators on Aristotle Spanish scholars 16th-century Spanish philosophers Latin commentators on Plato