Juan Alfonso de Curiel (died 28 September 1609) was a Spanish professor of

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and

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at the

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. Curiel was born in

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to Juan Curiel de la Torre, son of Juan de Curiel. He received his formal education at the

. At Salamanca, Curiel was the tutor to

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, the English Benedictine monk, and "was wont to call Barnes by the name of

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, because of a spirit of contradiction which was always observed in him." After his death, much of his writing was published by Salamanca and the

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, including ''Controuersiarum Sapientiss'' in 1611.

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16th-century births 1609 deaths Year of birth unknown 16th-century Spanish philosophers University of Salamanca alumni Academic staff of the University of Salamanca {{Spain-academic-bio-stub