ZURITA Y CASTRO, JERONIMO (1512-1580)

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ZURITA Y CASTRO, JERONIMO (1512-1580) , Spanish historian, was born at

Saragossa

, and studied at Alcala de Henares under the celebrated Hellenist, Hernan Nunez. Through the

influence

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

of his father, Miguel de Zurita, physician to Charles V., he entered the public service as

magistrate

MAGISTRATE (Lat. magistratus, from magister, master, properly a public
office
- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
, hence the person holding such an
office
- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
)

at Barbastro, and in 1537 was appointed assistant-secretary of the

Inquisition

INQUISITION, THE (Lat. inquisitio, an inquiry)

. In 1548 Zurita was nominated official chronicler of the kingdom of Aragon, and in 1566 Philip II. attached him as secretary to the

council

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

of the

Inquisition

INQUISITION, THE (Lat. inquisitio, an inquiry)

, delegating to him the conduct of all matters sufficiently important to require the king's signature. Zurita resigned these posts on the 21st of January 1571, obtained a sinecure at

Saragossa

, and dedicated himself wholly to the composition of his Anales de la corona de Aragon, the first

part

PART

of which had appeared in 1562; he lived to see the last volume printed at Saragossa on the 22nd of

April

APRIL

158o, and died on the 3rd of November following. Zurita's style is somewhat crabbed and dry, but his authority is unquestionable; he displayed a new conception of an historian's duties, and, not content with the ample materials stored in the archives of Aragon, continued his researches in the libraries of Rome, Naples and Sicily; he founded the school of historical scholarship in Spain.

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