Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo

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Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo ( Latin Rodericus Zamorensis , * 1404 in Santa María la Real de Nieva , † October 4, 1470 in Rome) was a Spanish clergyman, historian and political theorist.

Life

After studying law for ten years at the University of Salamanca and completing his doctorate there, he became secretary to the kings John II († 1454) and Henry IV. Of Castile († 1474). They used him in several missions, in particular in relation to the Holy See at the Council of Basel , whose conciliar theses he rejected. During a mission in the Holy Roman Empire he was approached by Nikolaus von Cues in a letter in which the latter presented his theory of the Explicatio Petri , the unfolding of the Church by Peter .

In 1450, in the Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva , Arévalo held the annual praise in honor of Thomas Aquinas before the academic community of the Angelicum , the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas

After the election of Calixt III. as Pope (1455) he stayed in Rome. In 1457 he was appointed Bishop of Oviedo , then under Pope Paul II (1464–1471) commander of Castel Sant'Angelo , and successively Bishop of Zamora (1467), Bishop of Calahorra (1468) and Bishop of Palencia (1469). Rodrigo was jailer for Julius Pomponius Laetus (Giulio Pomponio Leto), Bartolomeo Platina and other members of Academia Romana who were suspected of conspiracy against him by Pope Paul.

Works

His mostly unedited works, which deal with ecclesiastical and political issues, are in the Vatican or in Padua. Printed: Speculum Vitae Humanae (Rome, 1468), a popular work that was reprinted frequently over the next two centuries; it deals with the lights and shadows of the various stages of life; Historia Hispanica , which in the first volume of from the earliest times to 1469 (Rome, 1470) Andreas Schott Hispania Illustrata was taken

In De Monarchia Orbis et de origine et differentiâ principatus imperialis et regalis (Rome, 1521), he grants the Pope the sole right to punish kings. His bold reproaches to certain ecclesiastical dignitaries caused Matthias Flacius to call him the forerunner of Martin Luther , but wrongly, as Nicolás Antonio has shown in his Bibliotheca Hispanica Vetus (Volume II, pp. 397, 608 and 614).

Other works are:

  • De arte, disciplina et modo aliendi et erudiendi filios, pueros et juvenes (1453)
  • Suma de la política (1454/5), edited by Juan Beneyto Perez (1944)
  • Vergel de príncipes (1456/7)
  • Speculum vitae humanae (1468) as Espejo de la vida humana (Zaragoza, 1491)
  • Compendiosa historia Hispanica (around 1470, title page )

literature

  • Franz Stanonik , R. Sánchez de Arévalo , in: Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexikon , Volume 1, p. 1272
  • Ludwig von Pastor , History of the Popes , Volume 1, p. 392, and Volume 2, pp. 333 and 342.
  • Juan Marâia Laboa, Rodrigo Sánchez De Arévalo: Alcaide De Sant'Angelo , Fundacion Universitaria Espanola, Seminario Nebrija, 1973.
  • Richard H. Trame, Rodrigo Sanchez de Arevalo 1404–1470: Spanish Diplomat and Champion of the Papacy , Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1958.
  • T. Shahan, Rodriguez Sanchez de Arévalo , in: The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907, New York: Robert Appleton Company. ( online , accessed August 3, 2019).

Remarks

  1. ↑ online, accessed December 31, 2014 ; J. Blázquez, Sermón de Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo en la fiesta de Santo Tomás de Aquino (7 March 1450) , in: Revista española de teologia 34 (1974), pp. 396-402.
personal data
SURNAME Sánchez de Arévalo, Rodrigo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish bishop, historian and political theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1404
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Maria la Real de Nieva
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1470
Place of death Rome