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Scienze della comunicazione Università degli Studi di TeramoPhD Program in Historical studies

Juan de Mariana

Juan de Mariana was a historian and theologian of the Society of Jesus, born in Talavera de la Reina in 1526 and he studied at Alcalá de Henares, where he met the Jesuits and he decided to join the Society. In addition to being one of the most important writers of the Spanish Golden Age, he was rector of various Jesuit colleges, such as those of Loreto and Messina. Among his most important works the Historiae de rebus Hispaniae (1592) stand out, in which he explained and interpreted the history of Spain, and the controversial De Rege et Regis Institutione (1599), which justified tyrannicide as an extreme measure against an unjust and despotic government. He died in Toledo in 1624.

Read more:

  • J. Barba Martin, Las dos historias de J. de Mariana, in «Estudios», 29 (1992), pp. 51-70.
  • J. Maiso González, Momento historiográfico que aparece en la Historia de Juan de Mariana, in Homenaje a Antonio de Béthencourt Massieu, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1995, vol. II, pp. 321-336.
  • F. Centenera Sánchez-Seco, El pensamiento filosófico-político de Juan de Mariana en el Tratado De rege et regis institutione, in L. San Miguel García (ed.), Filosofía política: las grandes obras, 2006, pp. 371-386.