Arias Montanus, Benedictus

Arias Montanus, Benedictus bĕnədĭk´təs ā´rēəs mŏntā´nəs [key], or Benito Arias Montano bānē´tō ä´ryäs mōntä´nō [key], 1527–98, Spanish Benedictine monk, editor of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible . He attended the Council of Trent (1562).

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