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Torres Rámila, Pedro de

Born: 1583, Villarcayo

Died: 1658, Alcalà de Henares

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A Spanish poet and humanist. He owes what little fame he has had to his work Spongia, published in 1617 and now lost, in which he accused Lope de Vega for his distance from Aristotle’s precepts.

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Guidi, S. (2014). Torres Rámila, Pedro de. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_133-1

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