Juan Lorenzo Obras se Palmireno (1514 or 1524 - 1579 or 1580) was a Aragonese humanist, playwright and educator. Philip II of Spain called him the most learned man in his kingdom.
Juan Lorenzo Palmireno was born in Alcañiz. Professor of Rhetoric and Greek at the University of Zaragoza from 1556 to 1560, he was appointed Professor at the University of Valencia in 1560. He also graduated in medicine from Valencia. In 1570 he returned to his village home, organizing grammar classes there. From 1572 until his death in 1579 he was again Professor at Valencia.
Aphtonii Clarissimi Rhetoris Progymnasmata, 1552De vera et facili imitatione Ciceronis...' Zaragoza: [s.n.],1560Enchiridion Graecae Linguae. Lyon: [s.n.], 1558; Valencia: Mey, 1561De copia rerum et artificio rhetorico libellus. Valencia: Juan Mey, 1564Tertia et ultima pars Rhetoricae Laurentii Palmireni... Valencia: Juan Mey, 1566Prima pars rhetoricae. Valencia: Juan Mey, 1567El Estudioso de Aldea. [s.l.,: s.n.], 1568Nebrija, Antonio de. Libro IV Introducciones latinae. Valencia: Pedro de Huete, 1571De arte dicendi libri quinque. Valencia: [s.n.], 1573Descuidos de los latinos interpretando los comentarios de César. Valencia: [s.n.], 1573El latino de repente. Valencia: Pedro de Huete, 1573. Contiene: Eloquentia iuvenilis y De vera et facili...Rhetoricae Laurentii Palmireni liber quartus, in quo de inventione partium orationis disputatur... Valencia: Pedro de Huete, 1573Vocabulario del humanista... Valencia: Pedro de Huete,1573. Donde se trata de aves, peces... hay también un vocabulario... para entender a Cicerón, César y VirgilioPhrases Ciceronis obscuriores in Hispanicam linguam conversae... Eiusdem Oratio post reditum in Academia Valentina. Valencia: Pedro de Huete, 1574Campi eloquentiae in quibus... ratio declamandi, orationes, praefationes, epistolae... continentur. Valencia: Pedro de Huete, 1574Eloquentia iuvenilis. Valencia: [s.n.], 1578El Estudioso cortesano. Valencia: Pedro de Huete, 1578Rhetoricae Laurentii Palmireni liber tertius et ultimus, in quo de inventione, copia rerum, dispositione, memoria et actione disputatur... Valencia: Pedro de Huete, 1578Dilucida conscribendi epistolas ratio. Valencia: [s.n.], 1585Rhetoricae prolegomena. [s.l.: s.n., s.a.]