Pero Díaz de Toledo

Pero Díaz de Toledo , señor de Olmedilla de Alarcón also Pedro Díaz de Toledo (* 1410 , † 1466 in Alcalá de Henares ) was a Spanish humanist and lawyer.

Live and act

He was the son of a family of converted Jews , conversos . In 1430 de Toledo began his university studies probably in Valladolid . Then from 1433 he described himself as a student of law . On September 12, 1438, he finished his education at the University of Lérida . He received his doctorate and was appointed judge on October 15, 1440 . From 1441 he ruled as judge at the court, Oidor de Audiencia .

He was one of the advisors to King John II of Castile .

Works (selection)

• Proverbs (1437)

literature

• Nicholas Grenville Round: Pero Díaz de Toledo: a study of a 15th century converso translator in his background. Dissertation, University of Oxford, Oxford 1967.
• José Luis Herrera Pardo: "Pero Díaz de Toledo, señor de Olmedilla." Revista de Literatura Medieval, X, 1998, pp. 101-115.
• Nicholas Grenville Round: Alonso de Espina y Pero Díaz de Toledo: Odium theologicum y odium academicus. University of Glasgow, AIH, Actas X (1989), pp. 319-329
• José Luis Herrera Pardo: El enquiridión de Pero Díaz de Toledo. Pp. 571-577

Web links

• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Biographical data.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ He is not to be confused with the Spanish cleric Pedro Díaz de Toledo y Ovalle (1425–1499)
2. ↑ according to other sources, the year of birth is named 1415
3. ↑ Véase José Luis Herrera Pardo: ". Pero Diaz de Toledo, señor de Olmedilla" Revista de Literatura Medieval, X, 1998, pp. 101–115, ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.