Excerpt from Benito Arias Montano One of the great humanists of the six teenth century, the editor of the celebrated polyglot Bible of Antwerp, the friend of Fray Luis de Leon, Benito Arias Montano deserves an elaborate biography both for his own worth and owing to the interest of the times in which he lived, and the variety of affairs in which he took part on behalf of his master, Philip II of Spain. The following notes can hope to present but a slight sketch of the man who in his lifetime was known as the Spanish Jerome (r). A short life by Tomas Gonzalez Carvajal, accompanied by seventy-seven documents, was published in the Alemorz'as de [a Real Academia dc la Hz'storz'a, tom. 7 pp. 1 - 199 E logio lzz'slo'rz'co de/ Dodor Benito Arias zllomfcmo [here referred to as Carvajal]. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.