The presentation of the translation, carried out by professor Laureano Alonso Alvarez, will take place on Monday, November 16th, at 8:00 PM in the Municipal Exhibition Hall of the "Francisco Sánchez" Building in Tui. The date marks the 403rd anniversary of Sánchez's death in the French city of Toulouse.
This work is part of Opera Medica (Toulouse, 1636), a posthumous edition of his works that includes medical treatises and other minor works such as "De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae liber" and "In Librum Aristotelis Physiognomicon, commentarius", in addition to the well-known Quod Nihil Scitur.
The translation work, initiated by Professor Alonso in previous years, aims to disseminate the figure and work of Francisco Sánchez, considered one of the great Galician thinkers whose thought remains relevant today.
In 2023, his main work, Quod nihil scitur (1581), was translated into Galician, followed by Carmen de cometa (1576) and "Libro sobre a duración e brevidade da vida" (2025).
The Councilor for Education, Culture, and Youth, Sonsoles Vicente Solla, emphasized that this publication will contribute to spreading Francisco Sánchez's thought, reaffirming the pride of belonging to Tui, the city where he was born and spent his childhood.
Francisco Sánchez, known as "The Skeptic" or "The Tudense", was a multifaceted thinker born in Tui, possibly in 1550. His family, of Jewish descent, had to flee to Bordeaux, where he continued his education before settling in Toulouse (France), where he worked as a physician and university professor. He died in Toulouse on November 16, 1623.
