Nicolás Antonio
Nicolás Antonio (born July 31, 1617 in Seville , † April 13, 1684 in Madrid ) was a Spanish Jesuit and bibliographer .
Life
After studying at the University of Salamanca (1636–1639) he returned to his hometown. He wrote De Exilio (which was not printed until 1659) and began his monumental register of Spanish writers. The fame of his findings reached King Philip IV , who awarded him the Santiagoorden in 1645 and sent him to Rome as his representative in 1654. In 1679 he returned to Spain.
Works
His Bibliotheca Hispana nova , which deals with works by Spanish authors that flourished after 1500, appeared in Rome in 1672 under the title Bibliotheca Hispana sive Hispanorum ; the Bibliotheca Hispana vetus , a Spanish literary history from Augustus to the end of the 15th century, was revised by Manuel Martí and published in Rome in 1696 by Antonio's friend Cardinal José Saenz d'Aguirre . An edition of both parts with additions found in Antonio's manuscripts and annotations by Francisco Perez Bayer was published in Madrid in 1787/78. This work, which is superior to any previous bibliography, continues to be unsurpassed and indispensable.
The most important of Antonio's various writings is the posthumous Censura de historias fabulosas (Valencia, 1742), in which scholarship is combined with critical insight. His Bibliotheca Hispana rabinica was not printed; the manuscript is in the Spanish National Library in Madrid.
source
- Antonio, Nicolas , in: Hugh Chisholm (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica , Volume 2, 1911, Cambridge University Press
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Antonio, Nicolás |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish bibliographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1617 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seville |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1684 |
| Place of death | Madrid |