1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TORRES Y VILLAROEL, DIEGO DE (1696-1759?), Spanish miscellaneous writer, was born hi 1696 at Salamanca, where his father was bookseller to the university. In his teens Torres escaped to Portugal where he enlisted under a false name; he next moved tc Madrid, living from hand to mouth as a hawker; in 1717 he was ordained subdeacon, resumed his studies at Salamanca, and in 1726 became professor of mathematics at the university. A friend of his having stabbed a priest, Torres was suspected of complicity, and once more …
- Source status
- OCR text aligned to scanned pages
- Pages
- Vol. 27, pp. 61-61