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FOX MORCILLO, SEBASTIAN (1526?-1559?)

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FOX MORCILLO, See also:SEBASTIAN (1526?-1559?) , See also:Spanish See also:scholar and philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Seville between 1526 and 1528. About 1548 he studied at See also:Louvain, and, following the example of the Spanish See also:Jew, Judas Abarbanel, published commentaries on See also:Plato and See also:Aristotle in which he endeavoured to reconcile their teaching. In 1559 he was appointed See also:tutor to See also:Don See also:Carlos, son of See also:Philip II., but did not live to take up the duties of the See also:post, as he was lost at See also:sea on his way to See also:Spain. His most See also:original See also:work is the De imitatione, seu de informandi styli ratione libriIt. (1554), a See also:dialogue in which the author and his See also:brother take See also:part under the pseudonyms of Gaspar and Francisco Enuesia. Among Fox Morcillo's other publications are : (I) In Topica Ciceronis paraphrasis et scholia (155o); (2) In Platonis Timaeum cornmentarii (1554) ; (3) Compendium ethices philosophiae ex Platone, Aristotele, aliisque philosophis collectum; (4) De historiae institutione dialogus (1557), and (5) De naturae philosophia. He is the subject of an excellent monograph by Urbano Gonzalez de Calle, Sebastidn Fox Morcillo: estudio histhrico-critico de See also:sus doctrinas (See also:Madrid, 1903).

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