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ANTONIO DE See also:LEBRIJA [See also:ANTONIUS NEBRISSENSIS] , (1444 1522), See also:Spanish See also:scholar, was See also:born at Lebrija in the See also:province of See also:Andalusia. After studying at See also:Salamanca he resided for ten years in See also:Italy, and completed his See also:education at See also:Bologna University. On his return to See also:Spain (1473), he devoted himself to the See also:advancement of classical learning amongst his countrymen. After holding the professorship of See also:poetry and See also:grammar at Salamanca, he was transferred to the university of See also:Alcala de Henares, where he lectured until his See also:death in 1522, at the See also:age of seventy-eight. His services to the cause of classical literature in Spain have been compared with those rendered by See also:Valla, See also:Erasmus and Budaeus to Italy, See also:Holland and See also:France. He produced a large number of See also:works on a variety of subjects, including a Latin and Spanish See also:dictionary, commentaries on See also:Sedulius and See also:Persius, and a Compendium of See also:Rhetoric, based on See also:Aristotle, See also:Cicero and See also:Quintilian. His most ambitious See also:work was his See also:chronicle entitled Rerum in Hispania Gestarum Decades (published in 1545 by his son as an See also:original work by his See also:father), which twenty years later was found to be merely a Latin See also:translation of the Spanish chronicle of See also:Pulgar, which was published at See also:Saragossa in 1567. De Lebrija also took See also:part in the See also:production of the Complutense polyglot See also:Bible published under the patronage of See also:Cardinal See also:Jimenes. Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Nova, i. 132 (1888) ; See also:Prescott, See also:History of See also:Ferdinand and See also:Isabella, i. 410 (See also:note) ; MacCrie, The See also:Reformation in Spain in the Sixteenth See also:Century (1829).

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