Juan Lorenzo Palmireno
Juan Lorenzo Palmireno was an Aragonese humanist, playwright and educator. Philip II of Spain called him the most learned man in his kingdom.
Biography
Juan Lorenzo Palmireno was born in Alcañiz. Professor of Rhetoric and Greek at the University of Zaragoza from 1556 to 1560, he was appointed Professor at the University of Valencia in 1560. He also graduated in medicine from Valencia. In 1570 he returned to his village home, organizing grammar classes there. From 1572 until his death in 1579 he was again Professor at Valencia.Works
Aphtonii Clarissimi Rhetoris Progymnasmata De vera et facili imitatione Ciceronis Enchiridion Graecae Linguae De copia rerum et artificio rhetorico libellus Rhetorica prolegomena Rhetoricae. Pars secunda in duos libros distributa Tertia et ultima pars Rhetoricae Laurentii Palmireni Prima pars rhetoricae El Estudioso de Aldea Nebrija, Antonio de. Libro IV Introducciones latinae De arte dicendi libri quinque Descuidos de los latinos interpretando los comentarios de César El latino de repente Rhetoricae Laurentii Palmireni liber quartus, in quo de inventione partium orationis disputatur Vocabulario del humanista Phrases Ciceronis obscuriores in Hispanicam linguam conversae... Eiusdem Oratio post reditum in Academia Valentina Campi eloquentiae in quibus... ratio declamandi, orationes, praefationes, epistolae... continentur Eloquentia iuvenilis El Estudioso cortesano Rhetoricae Laurentii Palmireni liber tertius et ultimus, in quo de inventione, copia rerum, dispositione, memoria et actione disputatur- ''Dilucida conscribendi epistolas ratio''