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Article: Mariana, Juan De (?1535/1536–1624)
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MARIANA, JUAN DE (?1535/1536
–
1624)
MARIANA, JUAN DE
(?1535/1536
–
1624), Spanish Jesuit (Alcal
á
de Henares, 1554), historian and economic and political theorist. Born in Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), Mariana was among the most important Spanish scholars of his time, and taught at Rome, Sicily, Paris, and Toledo.
Mariana published his history of Spain,
De Rebus Hispaniae,
in 1592, and revised and translated it into Spanish in 1601 as
Historia general de Espa
ñ
a.
His Castilian-centric vision of Iberian history, full of rousing speeches and moral lessons, was typical of the historiography of the period, in the tradition of Livy. Written in the wake of the Armada's ...