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Political dissertation on the education and instruction of the pupils of the Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:42 +0000

This document contains a political dissertation on the education that the students of the Royal Seminary of Vergara should receive, probably written by the heads of the enlightened institution. This document must be contextualised in the years prior to the foundation of the aforementioned educational institution (1776). The exact authors are not known. It promotes the educational premises that the Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País wished to establish for the education of the descendants of the families responsible for founding the first Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País.

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Correspondence of Luis Proust (Professor of Chemistry at the Seminary of Vergara) addressed to the Count of Peñaflorida

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:42 +0000

The French pharmacist Louis Proust, one of the fathers of modern chemistry, was professor of chemistry at the Royal Seminary of Vergara. This institution, created under the protection of the Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País, recruited some of the best minds of the time: François Duboix, Geronimo Mas, Pierre François Chabaneau, Louis Joseph Proust, Fausto de Elhuyar and Anders Nikolaus Thunborg. In this document, the chemistry professor writes to the Director of the institution, the 10th Count of Peñaflorida, about various economic matters.

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Geographical origin of the seminarians of San Pelagio (Cordoba, 17th century)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:48 +0000

Session XXIII of the Council of Trent (1545-1563) agreed to the creation of centres dedicated exclusively to priestly formation. The centres were to be controlled by the bishops of each diocese and the financial endowment was to come from episcopal and capitular revenues. The loss of income on the part of the diocesan councils, and the opposition of the existing colleges and universities that also trained the clergy, meant that the new seminaries were only slightly established. In the case of the diocese of Cordoba, the Seminary of San Pelagio was established between 1583 and 1600. Where did the new seminarians come from? Of the 352 students that the institution had in the 17th century, the vast majority, 315, were born in the diocese and province of Cordoba (89.49%), followed by the towns also belonging to the bishopric of Cordoba, but not to the civil province (23, 6.54%). A further 13 pupils (3.69%) were born in neither the jurisdiction of the bishopric nor the civil province of Cordoba, and only 1 pupil (0.28%) was from a town in the province, but whose ecclesiastical jurisdiction differed. By origin, the vast majority came from rural areas (294 pupils, 86.73%), and 13.27% were from the city of Cordoba. The author notes that, although the capital of Córdoba accounted for 13.27% of the total, the 45 pupils from that city constituted the largest number of pupils from the same nucleus, followed by rural areas such as Castro del Río (21) and Pozoblanco (18).

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