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Bartolomé Pou (1727–1802) was a Spanish priest, writer and translator.
Life
editHe was born on June 21, 1727 in Algaida, Majorca, and was educated by Jesuits, taking the novitiate at the age of nineteen.[1] After teaching grammar for several years he was ordained as a priest in 1755.
After the Jesuits were expelled from Spain in 1767, he lived in Rome for 30 years, returning to Mallorca in 1797.[2]
Works
editBartholomew Pou published several books, some are named, others are with pseudonyms or anonymously declared. Highlights include:
- Entertainments rhetorical and poetic at the Academy of Cervera, three speeches and a tragedy entitled Hispania captures;
- the Bilbilitanae Theses, printed in 1763 in Calatayud with the title of philosophiae historiae Institutionum libri duodecim;
- Life of Venerable Berchmaus;
- apologetic four books of the Society of Jesus, written in Latin, with the name of Ignacio Philaretos;
- two books in memory of Laura Bassi, Latin and Greek, philosophy of the Academy of Bologna;
- the translation of the nine books of the History of Herodotus;[3]
- Pastors Relief, Castilian, and a Compendium of Logic, two booklets, if not entirely his own, at least were corrected by him.
References
editExternal links
edit- Works by or about Bartolomé Pou at the Internet Archive
- Works by Bartolomé Pou at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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