Sebastián Fox Morcillo

Sebastian Fox Morcillo (1526?Ã¢ÂÂ1559?), a Spanish scholar and philosopher, was born in Seville between 1526 and 1528. Around 1548 he studied in Leuven, in the Habsburg Netherlands. Following the example of the Spanish Jew Judah Abarbanel, he published commentaries on Plato and Aristotle, in which he endeavoured to reconcile their teachings. In 1559 he was appointed tutor to Don Carlos, son of Philip II, but he was lost at sea on his way to Spain to take up the post.

His best-known work is De imitatione, seu de informandi styli ratione libri II (1554), a dialogue between the author and his brother under the pseudonyms of Gaspar and Francisco Enuesia.

Works

In Topica Ciceronis paraphrasis et scholia, 1550, 8vo
De imitatione, seu de informandi styli ratione libri II, Amberes, 1554
De naturÃÂ¦ philosophia seu de Platonis et Aristotelis consensione libri quinque, 1554
In Platonis Timaeum commentarii, 1554
Ethices philosophiae compendium ex Platone, Aristotele aliisque optimos quibusque auctoribus collectum, 1554
De Philosophici studii ratione, Lovaina, 1554
De naturae philosophia seu de Platonis et Aristotelis consensione, libri V, Lovaina 1554
De juventute, Basilea, 1556
De regni regisque institutione libri III, Amberes, 1556
Comentatio in decem Platonis libros de Republica, 1556
De demonstratione ejusque necessitate et vi liber I, Basilea, 1556
De honore, Basilea, 1556
De usu et exercitatione Dialecticae, 1556
De historiae institutione dialogus, 1557 (Antonio Cortijo OcaÃÂ±a, TeorÃÂa de la historia y teorÃÂa polÃÂtica en el siglo XVI. AlcalÃÂ¡ de Henares: UP, 2000)

References

Bibliography

Cantarero de Salazar, Alejandro.-ÃÂ«Reexamen crÃÂtico de la biografÃÂa del humanista SebastiÃÂ¡n Fox Morcillo (c. 1526- c. 1560)ÃÂ», Studia Aurea, 9, 2015, pÃÂ¡gs. 531Ã¢ÂÂ564. https://studiaaurea.com/article/view/v9-cantarero
Cantarero de Salazar, Alejandro, ÃÂ«La mimesis conversacional en el corpus de diÃÂ¡logos de SebastiÃÂ¡n Fox Morcillo: introducciÃÂ³n a su estudio literarioÃÂ», eHumanista, 29, 2015, 305Ã¢ÂÂ341. <https://www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.span.d7_eh/files/sitefiles/ehumanista/volume29/14%20ehum29.viv.cantarero.vd.pdf>
Cantarero de Salazar, Alejandro, ÃÂ«AproximaciÃÂ³n a la tradiciÃÂ³n editorial de la obra de SebastiÃÂ¡n Fox Morcillo: Primer repertorio tipobibliogrÃÂ¡ficoÃÂ», Camenae, 17, 2015, 1-31. http://saprat.ephe.sorbonne.fr/revue-en-ligne-camenae-16.htm
Cortijo OcaÃÂ±a, Antonio, TeorÃÂa de la Historia y TeorÃÂa polÃÂtica en SebastiÃÂ¡n Fox Morcillo. ÃÂ«De Historia Institutione DialogusÃÂ»/ÃÂ«DiÃÂ¡logo de la enseÃÂ±anza de la HistoriaÃÂ». AlcalÃÂ¡ de Henares, Universidad de AlcalÃÂ¡ de Henares, 2000.
Espigares Pinilla, Antonio, La cuestiÃÂ³n del honor y la gloria en el humanismo del siglo XVI a travÃÂ©s del "Gonsalus" de GinÃÂ©s de SepÃÂºlveda y de "De Honore" de Fox Morcillo, Tesis doctoral, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1994.
Espigares Pinilla, Antonio, "De honore". Estudio y traducciÃÂ³n, Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2017.
GonzÃÂ¡lez de la Calle, Pedro Urbano, SebastiÃÂ¡n Fox Morcillo. Estudio histÃÂ³rico-crÃÂtico de sus doctrinas, Madrid, Imprenta del Asilo de HuÃÂ©rfanos del Sagrado CorazÃÂ³n de JesÃÂºs, 1903.
Pike, Ruth, ÃÂ«De converso origin of SebastiÃÂ¡n Fox MorcilloÃÂ», Hispania. A journal devoted to the interest of the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese, 51, 1968, 4, 877Ã¢ÂÂ882
Pineda, Victoria, La imitaciÃÂ³n como arte en el siglo XVI espaÃÂ±ol (Con una ediciÃÂ³n y traducciÃÂ³n del diÃÂ¡logo "De imitatione" de SebastiÃÂ¡n Fox Morcillo), Sevilla, DiputaciÃÂ³n Provincial de Sevilla, 1994.