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MASDEU, JUAN FRANCISCO (1744-1817)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 836 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MASDEU, JUAN FRANCISCO (1744-1817) , See also:Spanish historian, was See also:born at See also:Palermo on the 4th of See also:October 1744. He joined the See also:Company of Jesus on the 19th of See also:December 1759, and became See also:professor in the Jesuit seminaries at See also:Ferrara and See also:Ascoli. He visited See also:Spain in 1799, was exiled, and returned in 1815, dying at See also:Valencia on the See also:lath of See also:April 1817. His Storia critica di Spagnae della cultura spagnuola in ogni genere (2 vols., 1781—1784) was finally See also:expanded into the Historia critica de Espana y de la cultura espanola (1783—1805), which, though it consists of twenty volumes, was See also:left unfinished; had it been continued on the same See also:scale, the See also:work would have consisted of fifty volumes. Masdeu wrote in a See also:critical spirit and with a regard for accuracy rare in his See also:time; but he is more concerned with small details than with the See also:philosophy of See also:history. Still, his narrative is lucid, and later researches have not yet rendered his work obsolete.

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