Juan Paez de Castro
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Juan Páez de Castro "Paccius" (c.1512–1570) was a Spanish Jesuit Priest and confessor to King Philip II of Spain.
Educated at Alcalá de Henares, Salamanca and Bologna, he was well-versed in Greek and Latin. After touring the libraries of Italy, he came to appreciate their great value. Thus, Páez de Castro became among the first to recognize the usefulness of a state-funded library and drafted a proposal to Philip II of Spain requesting such. As a result of his proposal a royal library was built at El Escorial, which was completed after his death. [1] He also helped to develop a demographic survey to study the population of Spain, although he died before the survey was actually implemented.
References
- ^ Fadul, Valeria López. "Juan Páez de Castro and the Project of a Universal Library." Pacific Coast Philology 52, no. 2 (2017): 173-183.
- Hobson, Anthony. Renaissance Book Collecting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Burton, Margaret. Famous Libraries of the World: Their History, Collections, and Administrations. London: Grafton and Co., 1937.
- Pelegrín, Marta Albalá. "Wars of Knowledge: Iberian Imperial Hegemony and the Assembling of Libraries." Pacific Coast Philology 52, no. 2 (2017): 166-172.
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- 1512 births
- 1570 deaths
- 16th-century Spanish Jesuits
- University of Salamanca alumni
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- 16th-century Spanish philosophers