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TORRES Y VILLAROEL, DIEGO DE (16961759?)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 61 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TOO-TUM
TORRES Y VILLAROEL, DIEGO DE (16961759?) , Spanish miscellaneous writer, was
born
  in 1696 at Salamanca, where his father was bookseller to the university. In his teens Torres escaped to Portugal where he enlisted under a false name; he next moved to Madrid, living from hand to mouth as a hawker; in 1717 he was ordained subdeacon, resumed his studies at Salamanca, and in 1726 became
professor
  of
mathematics
  at the university. A friend of his having stabbed a priest, Torres was suspected of complicity, and once more fled to Portugal, where he remained till his innocence was proved. He then returned to his chair, which he resigned in 1751 to act as steward to two noblemen; he was certainly alive in 1758, but the date of his death is not known. Tones had so slight a smattering of
mathematics
  that his
appointment
  as
professor
  was thought scandalous even in his own scandalous age; yet he quickly acquired a
store
  of knowledge which he displayed with serene assurance. His almanacs, his verses, his farces, his devotional and pseudo-scientific writings show that he possessed the alert
B. DE-TORRICELLI 61
adaptiveness of the
born
  adventurer; but all that remains of his fourteen volumes (17451752) is his autobiography, an amusing
record
  of cynical effrontery and successful imposture.


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