Jerónimo de Zurita y Castro or simply Jerónimo de Zurita was a Spanish historian of the sixteenth century who founded the modern tradition of historical scholarship in Spain.
Quotes
"Historians use legends as geographers do fabulous animals-to symbolize unknown countries in their maps" - quoted from Spanish Historiography and Iberian Reality by J. N. Hillgarth, History and Theory, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Feb., 1985), pp. 23–43. ==Sources==