"By great application joined to an unusually brilliant mind and an extraordinarily retentive memory he accumulated such a vast store of knowledge that his contemporaries styled him the wonder of the world."
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Florentine Bechtel, Alonso Tostado (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia
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Alonso Tostado
Alonso Tostado (â 3 September 1455) was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Ăvila.
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