Life of Galen a Treatise on Medicinal Weights and Measures Alphabet of Doctrines or Statements of Galen on Hippocrates Europe the Self-Tormentor, that is to say, she miserably torments herself and laments her own disgrace, a discourse published in 1543, a few days after its reading, in the College of Arts in Cologne, on the press of Johann von Aachen (Cologne). The author forgot this famous oration and didn't return to revise it, but it looks forward to Montaigne, Descartes, Montesquieu and Voltaire in forging the modern idea of European civilization as opposed to barbarism: religious neutrality, secularization of law and public affairs, equal social, moral, and personal principles, etc... It is a pacifist discourse in the style of the Querela pacis of Erasmus of Rotterdam. Marcel Bataillon believed Laguna was the author of Travels in Turkey (1557), a work also attributed to Cristóbal de Villalón, Francisco Delicado or Juan de Ulloa Pereira, in the form of a dialogue that relates the customs of the Turks in the age of Suleyman the Magnificent, and allows the author to criticize contemporary customs after the manner of Erasmus. He published more than thirty works in all. Notes and references External links El Año de Andrés Laguna Spanish: El cuento corto en lengua castellana: dos autores del s. XVI. 1499 births 1559 deaths People from Segovia 16th-century Spanish botanists 16th-century Spanish physicians Spanish male writers Spanish translators Conversos Spanish Latinists University of Salamanca alumni