to Spain in 1545. As official historian of the enterprise of
the Indies, he wrote his vast Historia general y natural de
las Indias Islas y Tierra-Firme del Mar Oceano, published
over many years, a massive apologia for Spain’s colonial
enterprise.
Owen, John (c. 1560–1622) Welsh schoolmaster and
epigrammatist
Born in Caernarfonshire, Owen was educated at Oxford
and became headmaster of Henry VIII’s School, Warwick
(c. 1594). His neo-Latin epigrams, the first book of which
was published under the Latinized form of his name “Au-
doenus,” came out in 11 books from 1606 onward. His
polished and witty lines, imitative of the Roman poet Mar-
tial, were widely applauded, and were translated into Eng-
lish by several hands during the 17th century (1619,
1628, 1653, 1659, 1677). A collected edition was pub-
lished in Amsterdam in 1624, and there were also 17th-
century translations into German (1653) and Spanish
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