Juan de Torquemada O.P., Spanish ecclesiastic, defender of Jewish conversos, has been described as the most articulate papal apologist of the fifteenth century. He was an uncle of Tomás de Torquemada, afterwards notorious as the persecuting Grand... Wikipedia
Born: 1388, Valladolid, Spain
Died: September 26, 1468 (age 80 years), Rome, Italy
Books: John Of Torquemada: The Antiquity Of The Church, Johannes de Turrecremata Meditationes, The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595-1606: True account of the events of the voyage that the Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros made by order of His Majesty to the southern unknown land, by Caspar Gonzalez de Leza. Torquemada's Voyage of Quiros; translation, with notes, from the "Monarquia indiana." Letter from Luis Vaez de Torres ... to the king of Spain, giving an account of his voyage to Manila after parting company with Quiros, and more