Jerónimo de Cevallos
Jerónimo de Cevallos (1613) by El Greco. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Jerónimo de Cevallos (1560 - 22 July 1641[1][2]) was a Spanish jurist. He was the subject of El Greco's Portrait of Jerónimo de Cevallos in 1613.
Life[]
Born in Escalona, Toledo, he studied at the University of Valladolid and the University of Salamanca.[3] He worked as a lawyer in Toledo and in his birthplace.[4] He married in Toledo, where he also later died.
He published five books,[5] including Speculum practicarum et variarum quaestionum opinionum communium contra communes (1599).[6] According to several sources he was a friend and protector of Jorge Manuel, El Greco's son.
References[]
- ^ Gómez Menor 1974, p. 188.
- ^ de Dios 2014, p. 454.
- ^ de Dios 2014, p. 443 y 567.
- ^ de Dios 2014, p. 567.
- ^ de Dios 2014, p. 456.
- ^ Homenaje a Don Andrés Bello. Editorial Jurídica de Chile-Editorial Andrés Bello. 1982. p. 517.
Bibliography[]
- (in Spanish) de Dios, Salustiano (2014). El poder del monarca en la obra de los juristas castellanos (1480-1680). Cuenca: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. ISBN 978-849044-152-7.
- (in Spanish) Gómez-Menor, José (1974). «Nuevos datos biográficos sobre el licenciado Jerónimo de Cevallos». Anales toledanos (Diputación Provincial de Toledo) (10): 187-193. ISSN 0538-1983. Archivado desde el original el 24 de septiembre de 2015.
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