SAN ISIDORO DE SEVILLA , "Works".

SAN ISIDORO DE SEVILLA , "Obras".
2 books, with compilation of different works: Etymologies, of nature, chronicle, of illustrious men, history of the Goths, Suevi, Vandals and Kingdom of Toledo,
Publisher: Bartolomé Ulloa.
In Latin.
Covers in 18th century Spanish pulp.
Stains, humidity, faults.
Measurements: 36.5 x 23 x 6 cm (x2).

Isidore of Seville (probably Seville, c. 560 - Seville, 636) was a Catholic ecclesiastic, scholar and Hispanic polymath of the Visigothic period. He was bishop of Seville for more than three decades (602-636). He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and is considered the last Father of the Church. St. Isidore of Seville combined in several volumes the knowledge of his time, highlighting his writings on Etymologies, which achieved great fame. It was in the year 1580, when all his works were published and compiled as Opera Omnia. Isidorio de Sevilla was a Hispanic-Roman scholar, theologian and archbishop of Seville. He is considered, in the words of the 19th century historian Montalembert, "the last scholar of the ancient world." At a time of disintegration of classical culture, aristocratic violence and widespread illiteracy, Isidore participated in the conversion of the Arian Visigothic kings to Chalcedonian Christianity, both by helping his brother Leander of Seville and continuing after his death. He was influential in the inner circle of Sisebut, Visigothic king of Hispania. Like Leander, he played a prominent role in the councils of Toledo and Seville. His fame after his death was based on his Etymologiae, an etymological encyclopedia that brought together extracts from many books of classical antiquity that would otherwise have been lost. This work also contributed to standardizing the use of the period, comma and colon.