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NICOLAS ANTONIO (1617-1684)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 150 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICOLAS See also:ANTONIO (1617-1684)  , See also:Spanish bibliographer, was See also:born at See also:Seville on the 31St of See also:July 1617 . After taking his degree at See also:Salamanca (1636-1639), he returned to his native See also:city, wrote his See also:treatise De Exilio (which was not printed till 1659 ), and began his monumental See also:register of Spanish writers . The fame of his learning reached See also:Philip IV., who conferred the See also:order of See also:Santiago on him in 1645, and sent him as See also:general See also:agent to See also:Rome in 1654 . Returning to See also:Spain in 1679, See also:Antonio died at See also:Madrid in the See also:spring of 1684 . His Bibliotheca Hispana nova, dealing with the See also:works of Spanish authors who flourished after 1500, appeared at Rome in 1672; the Bibliotheca Hispana vetus, a See also:literary See also:history of Spain from the See also:time of See also:Augustus to the end of the 15th See also:century, was revised by See also:Manuel See also:Marti, and published by Antonio's friend, See also:Cardinal Jose Saenz de Aguirre at Rome in 1696 . A See also:fine edition of both parts, with additional See also:matter found in Antonio's See also:manuscripts, and with supplementary notes by Francisco See also:Perez Bayer, was issued at Madrid in 1787—1788 . This See also:great See also:work, incomparably See also:superior to any previous bibliography, is still unsuperseded and indispensable . Of Antonio's See also:miscellaneous writings the most important is the See also:posthumous Censura de historias fabulosas (See also:Valencia, 1942), in which erudition is combined with See also:critical insight . His Bibliotheca Hispana rabinica has not been printed; the See also:manuscript is in the See also:national library at Madrid .

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