ZURITA Y CASTRO, JERÓNIMO. - Aragonese historian, b. in Saragossa in 1512, d. there in 1580.

He studied in Salamanca and in 1548 was appointed court historiographer. He traveled through Aragon, Naples and Sicily in search of documents, having obtained from Philip II in 1550 free access to public and private archives.

After more than thirty years of research he published the Annales de la Corona de Aragón, from the Moorish invasions to the death of the Catholic King: the first historical work conducted according to scientific criteria, since Z. extended the critical scrutiny of the sources, including diplomatic reports, to the most ancient historical phases.

Z. was also secretary of the Inquisition in Madrid and, from 1569, intermediary between this tribunal and the Court. He spent his last years at the Hieronymites of S. Engracia in Saragossa.

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BIBL.: A. Palau y Dullet, Manual del librero hispano-americano, VII, Barcelona 1927, pp. 263-64; E. Fueter, Storia della storiografia moderna, Italian trans., I, Naples 1943, pp. 282-84; II, ibid. 1943, p. 355.

Enzo Navarra

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Zurita y Castro, Jerónimo

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