JUAN FRANCISCO See also:

• JUAN FRANCISCO MASDEU (1744-1817)

MASDEU (1744-1817)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish historian, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• PALERMO (Greek, Havopuos; Latin, Panhormus, Panormus)

Palermo on the 4th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1744 . He joined the See also:

• COMPANY

Company of Jesus on the 19th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1759, and became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor in the Jesuit seminaries at See also:

• FERRARA

Ferrara and See also:

• ASCOLI
• ASCOLI, GRAZIADIO ISAIA (1829–1907)

Ascoli . He visited See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain in 1799, was exiled, and returned in 1815, dying at See also:

• VALENCIA
• VALENCIA, or VALENTIA

Valencia on the See also:

• LATH (0. Eng. laett, Mid. Eng. lappe, a form possibly due to the Welsh llath; the word appears in many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch lat, Ger. Latte, and has passed into Romanic, cf. Ital. latta, Fr. latte)

lath of See also:

• APRIL

April 1817 . His Storia critica di Spagnae della cultura spagnuola in ogni genere (2 vols., 1781—1784) was finally See also:

• EXPANDED

expanded into the Historia critica de Espana y de la cultura espanola (1783—1805), which, though it consists of twenty volumes, was See also:

• LEFT

left unfinished; had it been continued on the same See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale, the See also:

• WORK

work would have consisted of fifty volumes . See also:

• MASDEU, JUAN FRANCISCO (1744-1817)

Masdeu wrote in a See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical spirit and with a regard for accuracy rare in his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time; but he is more concerned with small details than with the See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy of See also:

• HISTORY

history . Still, his narrative is lucid, and later researches have not yet rendered his work obsolete .