Francisco de Toledo
Francisco Álvarez de Toledo (10 July 1515 – 15 August 1582) also known as The Virreinal Solon, was an aristocrat and military of the Kingdom of Spain, who was the fifth Viceroy of Peru.
Toledo was born in Oropesa. He held the position of viceroy from November 30, 1569, until 1 May 1581, a total of eleven years and five months. Although for the majority of historians he was the most important of the viceroys of Peru and has been praised as the "supreme organizer" of the immense viceroyalty, to give an adequate legal structure, strengthening important Indian institutions, around which revolved the administration of the country for two hundred years, for others he was the great tyrant of the Indians for keeping the mining mita of the Inca Empire and have executed Túpac Amaru, the last Inca of the Neo-Inca State in Vilcabamba. He died in Escalona, aged 67.
Biography
Birth and early years
Francisco de Toledo was born on 15 July 1515 in Oropesa Castle belonging to the noble family Álvarez de Toledo, while his mother died, which would influence his mood serious and taciturn. Her aunts Mary and Elizabeth were responsible for their upbringing. It was the fourth and last child of II Count of Oropesa, Francisco Álvarez de Toledo y Pacheco and María Figueroa y Toledo, eldest of Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, II Count of Feria and María Álvarez de Toledo, daughter of the I Duke of Alba de Tormes.
Francisco de Toledo (Jesuit)
Francisco de Toledo (4 October 1532 in Cordoba (Spain) - 14 September 1596 in Rome) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and theologian, Biblical exegete and professor at the Roman College. He is the first Jesuit to have been made a cardinal (in 1593).
Biography
After studying under Domingo Soto, Toledo became a professor of philosophy at the University of Salamanca from 1555 to 1559.
He was ordained priest at Salamanca in 1556 and two years later, in 1558, entered the Jesuit order. After a brief period of spiritual formation he was called to Rome by the Superior General, Diego Laynez, where the budding Roman College was in great need of professors. Toledo successively (and successfully) taught Philosophy (1559-1562), Scholastic and Moral Theology (1562-1569), and was prefect of studies of the fast-growing university.
In the 1570s he published a number of commentaries on Aristotle's works.
He directed the work on the Clementine Vulgate, the revision of the Latin Vulgate that was published in 1598; this built on the Sistine Vulgate (the 1590 text), approved by Pope Sixtus V.
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