Background
He was born in Barásoain, Navarre, and was a relative of Francis Xavier.
economist university professor
He was born in Barásoain, Navarre, and was a relative of Francis Xavier.
He studied at Alcalá and in France, and became professor of canon law at Toulouse and Cahors.
Later, he returned to Spain and occupied the same chair for fourteen years at Salamanca, and for seven years at Coimbra in Portugal. Though he failed to exculpate the Archbishop, Aspilcueta was highly honoured at Rome by several popes, and was looked on as an oracle of learning and prudence. His humility, disinterestedness, and charity were proverbial.
He reached the patriarchal age of 95, and died at Rome.
He is buried in the national Church of San Antonio de" Portoghesi. He allegedly invented the mathematical concept of the time value of money.
At the age of eighty he went to Rome to defend his friend Bartolomeo Carranza, Archbishop of Toledo, accused before the Tribunal of the Inquisition.