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FLOREZ, ENRIQUE (1701-1773)

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FLOREZ, ENRIQUE (1701-1773) , See also:Spanish historian, was See also:born at See also:Valladolid on the 14th of See also:February 1701. In his fifteenth See also:year he entered the See also:order of St See also:Augustine, was afterwards See also:professor of See also:theology at the university of See also:Alcala, and published a Cursus theologiue in five volumes (1732-1738). He afterwards devoted himself to See also:historical studies. Of these the first-See also:fruit was his Clave Historial, a See also:work of the same class as the See also:French See also:Art de verifier See also:les See also:dates, and preceding it by several years. It appeared in 1743, and passed through many See also:editions. In 1747 was published the first See also:volume of EspanaSagrada, teatrogeografecohistorico de la Iglesia de Espana, a vast compilation of Spanish ecclesiastical See also:history which obtained a See also:European reputation, and of which twenty-nine volumes appeared in the author's lifetime. It was continued after his See also:death by See also:Manuel Risco and others, and further additions have been made at the expense of the Spanish See also:government. The whole work in fifty-one volumes was published at See also:Madrid (1747-1886). Its value is considerably increased by the insertion of See also:ancient See also:chronicles and documents not easily accessible elsewhere. Florez was a See also:good numismatist, and published Medallas de See also:las Colonias in 2 vols. (1757-1758), of which a third volume appeared in 1773. His last work was the Memorias de las reynas Catolicas, 2 vols.

(x770). Florez led a retired, studious and unambitious See also:

life, and died at Madrid on the loth of See also:August 1773. See F. Mendez, Noticia de la See also:vida y escritos de Henrique Florez (Madrid, 178o).

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