Enrique Flórez

Enrique Flórez (born July 21, 1702, Villadiego, Spain—died May 5, 1773, Madrid) was a Spanish historian and representative figure in the movement to reform education under Charles III; he was the major scholar behind the 51-volume España sagrada (“Sacred Spain”), a monument of 18th-century historiography. In 1718 Flórez entered the Augustinian order and studied philosophy with the priests of Piedrahita, moving a year later to teach in the Augustinian college of Salamanca. After earning his...