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JUAN DE MARIANA (1536-1624)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 707 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIANA (1536-1624)  , See also:Spanish historian, was See also:born at Talavera . He studied at the university of See also:Alcala, and was admitted at the See also:age of seventeen into the Society of Jesus . In 1561 he went to See also:teach See also:theology in See also:Rome, reckoning among his pupils See also:Robert See also:Bellarmine, afterwards See also:cardinal; then passed into See also:Sicily; and in 1569 he was sent to See also:Paris, where his expositions of the writings of See also:Thomas See also:Aquinas attracted large audiences . In 1574, owing to See also:ill See also:health, he obtained permission to return to See also:Spain; the See also:rest of his See also:life being passed at the See also:Jesuits' See also:house in See also:Toledo in vigorous See also:literary activity . He died at See also:Madrid, on the 17th of See also:February 1624 . See also:Mariana's See also:great See also:work, Historiae de See also:rebus Hispaniae, first appeared in twenty books at Toledo in 1592; ten books were subsequently added (1605), bringing the work down to the See also:accession of See also:Charles V. in 1519, and in a still later abstract of events the author completed it to the accession of See also:Philip IV. in 1621 . It was so well received that Mariana was induced to translate it into Spanish (the first See also:part in 1601; completed, 1609; Eng. trans., by J . See also:Stevens, 1699) . Mariana's Historiae, though in many parts uncritical, is justly esteemed for its See also:research, accuracy, sagacity and See also:style . Of his other See also:works the most interesting is the See also:treatise De rege et regis institutione (Toledo, 1598) . In its See also:sixth See also:chapter the question whether it is lawful to overthrow a See also:tyrant is freely discussed and answered in the affirmative, a circumstance which brought much odium upon the Jesuits, especially after the assassination of See also:Henry IV. of See also:France, in 161o . A See also:volume entitled Tractatus VII. theologici et historici (published by Mariana at See also:Cologne, in 1609, containing in particular a See also:tract, " De morte et immortalitate," and another, ` De mutatione monetae ") was put upon the See also:index expurgatorius, and led to the confinement of its author by the See also:Inquisition .

During his confinement there was found among his papers a See also:

criticism upon the Jesuits, which was printed after his See also:death as Discursus de erroribus qui in forma gubernationis societatis Jesu occurrunt (See also:Bordeaux, 1625), and was reprinted by See also:order of Charles III. when he banished the Jesuits from Spain . See L. von See also:Ranke, Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtsschreiber (See also:Leipzig, 1874), and Cirot, Etudes sur See also:les historiographes espagnols; Mariana, historien (Bordeaux, 1905) .

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