Sebastián Fox Morcillo

Sebastian Fox Morcillo (1526?–1559?), a Spanish scholar and philosopher, was born in Seville between 1526 and 1528. Around 1548 he studied in Leuven, in the Habsburg Netherlands. Following the example of the Spanish Jew Judah Abarbanel, he published commentaries on Plato and Aristotle, in which he endeavoured to reconcile their teachings. In 1559 he was appointed tutor to Don Carlos, son of Philip II, but he was lost at sea on his way to Spain to take up the post.

His best-known work is De imitatione, seu de informandi styli ratione libri II (1554), a dialogue between the author and his brother under the pseudonyms of Gaspar and Francisco Enuesia.

Works

In Topica Ciceronis paraphrasis et scholia, 1550, 8vo De imitatione, seu de informandi styli ratione libri II, Amberes, 1554 De naturæ philosophia seu de Platonis et Aristotelis consensione libri quinque, 1554 In Platonis Timaeum commentarii, 1554 Ethices philosophiae compendium ex Platone, Aristotele aliisque optimos quibusque auctoribus collectum, 1554 De Philosophici studii ratione, Lovaina, 1554 De naturae philosophia seu de Platonis et Aristotelis consensione, libri V, Lovaina 1554 De juventute, Basilea, 1556 De regni regisque institutione libri III, Amberes, 1556

Comentatio in decem Platonis libros de Republica, 1556 De demonstratione ejusque necessitate et vi liber I, Basilea, 1556 De honore, Basilea, 1556 De usu et exercitatione Dialecticae, 1556 De historiae institutione dialogus, 1557 (Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Teoría de la historia y teoría política en el siglo XVI. Alcalá de Henares: UP, 2000)