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. Following the example of the Spanish Jew Judas 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)
 * De historiae institutione dialogus, 1557 (Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Teoría de la historia y teoría política en el siglo XVI. Alcalá de Henares: UP, 2000)