Note 193 — BOOK VI.

The celebrated scholar, Francisco Sánchez, usually called El Brocense from his native place, was born at Las Brozas (Extremadura) in 1523, became professor of Greek and Rhetoric at Salamanca, and died in 1601. He edited Garcilaso (Salamanca, 1581), Juan de Mena (Salamanca, 1582), Horace (Salamanca, 1591), Virgil (Salamanca, 1591), Politian's Silvae (Salamanca, 1596), Ovid (Salamanca, 1598), Persius (Salamanca, 1599). To these should be added the Paradoxa (Antwerp, 1582), and a posthumous commentary on Epictetus (Pamplona, 1612). A Practical Grammar of the Latin Tongue, based on Sánchez, was published in London as recently as 1729. El Brocense was prosecuted by the Inquisition in 1584, and again in 1588. The latter suit was still dragging on when Sánchez died. See the Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de España (Madrid, 1842, etc.), vol. ii., pp. 5-170.