Vives, Juan Luis (1492–1540)

Spanish humanist writer and teacher. Educated in his hometown Valencia and in Paris, he settled in 1512 in Bruges, Flanders. He published in 1522 a commentary on St Augustine's De civitate Dei/City of God, which he had undertaken at the behest of the humanist scholar Erasmus. English patronage came from Henry VIII's wife Catherine of Aragon and from Cardinal Wolsey, who paid Vives to lecture at Oxford in 1523. In this period, Vives also produced a range of works: commentaries on classical texts, educational treatises, and political works.