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BENITO ARIAS MONTANO (1527-1598)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 490 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENITO ARIAS MONTANO (1527-1598)  , See also:

Spanish Orientalist and editor of the See also:Antwerp Polyglot, was See also:born at Fregenal de la Sierra, in See also:Estremadura, in 1527 . After studying at the See also:universities of See also:Seville and See also:Alcala, he took orders about the See also:year 1559 and in 1562 he was appointed consulting' theologian to the See also:council of See also:Trent . He retired to Pena de Aracena in 1564, wrote his commentary on the See also:minor prophets (1571), and was sent to Antwerp by See also:Philip II. to edit the polyglot See also:Bible projected by See also:Christopher See also:Plantin . The See also:work appeared in 8 volumes See also:folio, between 1568 and 1573 . Le6n de See also:Castro, a See also:professor at See also:Salamanca, thereon brought charges of See also:heresy against Arias Montano, who was finally acquitted after a visit to See also:Rome in 1575-1576 . He was appointed royal See also:chaplain, but withdrew to Pena de Aracena from 1579 to 1583; he resigned the chaplaincy in 1584, t This has generally been supposed to be the See also:place referred to by See also:Horace (Sat. i . 5 . 87), as one which the See also:metre would not allow him to mention by name; but H.•Nissen (Halische Landeskunde, See also:Berlin, 1902, ii . 845) proposes Ausculum instead.and went into See also:complete seclusion at See also:Santiago de la Espada in Seville, where he died in 1598 . He is the subject of an Elogio hist8rico by Tomas Gonzalez See also:Carvajal in the Memorias de la Real Academia de la Historia (See also:Madrid, 1832), vol. vii .

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