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Spanish Renaissance humanists

  • Ignatius of LoyolaÍñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola entered the world inside a stone fortress in Azpeitia, Gipuzkoa. His parents belonged to the minor nobility of the Basque region.
  • Pedro MexíaPedro Mexía entered the world between the 17th of January and the 6th of September 1497 in Seville. He spent most of his life within that city walls before…
  • Antonio de NebrijaAntonio de Nebrija was born in 1444 into an hidalgo family in the town of Nebrixa. This place now bears the name Lebrija within the province of Seville.
  • Juan Luis VivesOn the 6th of March 1493, a boy named Juan Luis Vives was born in Valencia to a family that had converted from Judaism to Christianity decades before.