Diego José Abad y GarcÃa
Diego José Abad ( born June 1, 1727 La Lagunita in Jiquilpan, Michoacán, Mexico, † September 30, 1779 in Bologna, Italy) was a Jesuit, writer, educator and humanist in colonial times Mexico - which was one of New Spain at the time - and later in Italy.
Life
Diego José Abad was first formed with tutors and then studied with honors literature and philosophy at the Jesuit College of San Ildefonso in Mexico City. On July 24, 1741, he entered the Jesuit Order and was ordained on October 3, 1751 in Mexico City. He worked as a teacher of rhetoric, philosophy, theology, canon law and civil law at Jesuit schools in Mexico City, Zacatecas and Querétaro and enjoyed by his students as his fellow teachers a good reputation. In his courses, he also introduced new teaching methods and designed especially his rhetoric hours with a humanistic approach. Due to the intense commitment to his work, he was attacked at the age of 40 years to health. Unhappy with the inadequate treatment of the doctors studied medicine Abad itself and is estimated to have lengthened by the knowledge they have acquired his life by several years.
When the Jesuits in 1767 by a decree of the Spanish king Charles III. were expelled from New Spain, Abad just held the post of rector at the Jesuit school of San Francisco Xavier in Querétaro. He emigrated to Italy, first lived in Ferrara and later in Bologna, where he died in 1779.
Works
In Mexico, and especially in Italy, Abad devoted to writing and used it the Latin, Spanish and Italian. So he wrote seals on various topics. His most important work is the didactic poem De deo, deoque homine heroica, where he began to write while serving in Querétaro and he completed in Italy. It is written in Latin hexameters, and is divided into two parts: a theological treatise and a life story of Jesus of Nazareth. It has been repeatedly edited under various titles, first by the Oratorian J.-B. Gamarra y Davalos as Musa Americana, seu de Deo carmina in 29 songs without indicating the name of the author (Cádiz 1769). Then Abad published the work itself as the de deo homine heroica under the pseudonym Jacobi Josephi Labbe Selenopolitani (Venice 1773, Ferrara 1775). Finally, the authoritative edition was the de deo, deoque homine heroica in 43 songs posthumously under the correct name and with a biographical sketch of the author by Manuel Fabri published ( Cesena, 1780). The poem found many admirers and was Fr.-X. Lozano in Spanish verses translated (Barcelona 1788). Benjamín Fernández Valenzuela got in 1974 under the title Poema heroico a new translation of the work.
1750 wrote Abad occasion of the consecration of a Jesuit church in Zacatecas the poem Rasgo épico descriptivo de la fábrica y grandezas del templo de la Compañía de Jesús en Zacatecas in eight-line stanzas in the nature of the Spanish poet Luis de Góngora. He also translated part of Virgil's Aeneid into Castilian, as its eighth Eclogue.
Besides poems Abad wrote treatises on theology, philosophy, mathematics and geography. In 1775 he published a four-volume Cursus Philosophicus ( Philosophical course ). He also wrote under the pseudonym Jacobi Josephi Labbe Selenopolitani a Dissertatio ludicro seria num possit aliquis Extra Italiam bene natus latine scribere ( Padua 1778) as witty and irrefutable response to a comment made in jest of G.-B. Roberti that only Italians would dominate the Latin language well.
Other works of Abad:
- Compendio de Álgebra
- Tratado del conocimiento de Dios (in Italian)
- Geografía Hidrografica ( on major rivers of the earth )
- Livino De Meyer, el alma y su inclusión in the pequeñez del cuerpo
- El problema de las embrollado matemáticas resuelto
- Disertación Cómico Acerca seria de la cultura latina de los extranjeros
- Himnos del oficio de San Felipe de Jesús