Pedro Juan Pepinyá, S.J. (1530 - October 28, 1566) was a Spanish Jesuit humanist who contributed to the development of the Jesuit Cursus Conimbricensis commentaries on Aristotle and who revised Cypriano Soarez' De arte rhetorica.[1][2]
Reverend Pedro Juan Pepinyá | |
|---|---|
 Pedro Juan Pepinyá | |
| Born | 1530 |
| Died | 28 October 1566 (aged 35–36) |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Occupation(s) | Jesuit priest, renaissance humanist, university teacher, latinist |
| Known for | His contribution to the development of the Jesuit Coimbra Commentaries on Aristotle |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Valencia |
| Doctoral advisor | Pedro Juan Núñez |
| Influences | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Rhetoric |
| Institutions | Roman College |
| Influenced | Francesco Adorno |
Life
editPepinyá was born at Elche in Valencia to Melchior Pepinyá and Eleanora Clapes.[1] He began his studies at a school in Oriheula, and later went to the University of Valencia where Juan Luis Vives had previously studied.[1] There, Pepinyá studied under Pedro Juan Núñez; his other instructors included Juan de Celaya, Miguel Hieronymus, Jerome Ledesma, and Juan Blasius Navarro.[1] Pepinyá received his bachelor's degree on July 6, 1541.[1] He and his brother Luis joined the Jesuit order on September 30, 1551.[1] He went to teach rhetoric at the Jesuit college in Lisbon, where he taught alongside Cypriano de Soarez.[1] He regularly gave speeches, including the inaugural address at the University of Coimbra in October 1555.[1] He was ordained a priest by Bishop João Nunes Barreto, Patriarch of Ethiopia the same month.[1] He also delivered the funeral oration for Prince Luis, the brother of King John III of Portugal, in 1555.[1][2] He then served as court preacher to the Queen from 1557 to 1559.[1] In 1561 he went to help with the Jesuit College in Rome and befriended the Italian humanist Paolo Manuzio.[1] In 1563 he was working on his own rhetoric treatise.[1] His rules for student awards were incorporated into the Ratio Studiorum.[1] In 1565 he made a revision of Soarez's De arte rhetorica.[1] At the request of Francesco Adorno, he wrote De ratione liberorum instituendorum literis Graecis et Latinis (How to Teach Children Latin and Greek).[1][2] Pepinyá disagreed strongly with the rhetorical innovations of Peter Ramus.[1] Pepinyá died in Paris.[1][2]
Works
edit- Perpiña, Pedro Juan (1589). Petri Ioannis Perpiniani Valentini e. Societate: Iesu Orationes duodeuiginti (in Latin). Brixiae: apud Petrum Mariam Marchettum. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Flynn, Lawrence J. (1955). The De Arte Rhetorica (1568) by Cyprian Soarez, S.J.: A Translation with Introduction and Notes. University of Florida.
- ^ a b c d Jesuit Pedagogy, 1540-1616: A Reader. Cristiano Casalini, Claude Nicholas Pavur. Chestnut Hill, MA. 2016. ISBN 978-0-9972823-0-6. OCLC 946277391.
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External links
edit- Juan de Alarcón de Tordesillas. "Pedro Juan Perpiñá". Diccionario biográfico español (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 February 2023.