, a voluminous Spanish author, and accounted one of the most learned
, a voluminous Spanish author,
and accounted one of the most learned men of his country
in the seventeenth century, was born in 1611. He entered, when he was ahout fifteen years of age, into the
order of the Jesuits at Salamanca, and spent the greatest
part of his life in that university, where afterwards he was
admitted to the degree of doctor of divinity, and appointed
rector. He obtained a very high reputation by the solutions which he gave to persons who came from all parts to
consult him in cases of conscience. He died in 1704, at
the great age of ninety-three, and continued to perform
the duties of professor till within three years of that time.
His works consist of eleven folio volumes, in Latin. Nine
of them are composed of treatises on philosophical, theological, and controversial subjects; the others are devoted
to an account of the antiquities of Biscay, and furnish the
reader with much curious and interesting matter; they are
entitled “Biscaya Illustrata.
” The part “de Cantabrias
antiquitatibus
” is a work of merit. He was author of many
smaller pieces not inserted in. this collection.