Juan Carlos Amat

Juan Carlos Amat

Juan Carlos Amat (in Catalan, Joan Carles i Amat) (Monistrol de Montserrat, Barcelona, ​​1572 - Monistrol de Montserrat, February 10, 1642). He was a writer, doctor and Spanish musician of Catalonia. He worked as a doctor in Valencia and later in the monastery of Montserrat and is the author of works of medicine that were widely distributed, even outside the country, with editions in Lyon (1623) and Geneva (1656): Fructus medicinae, Treaty of the Plague and Treaty of the wounds of the head.

Amateur musician and good guitarist. As a result of his experience, he ventured to write the first known guitar treatise, entitled: Spanish guitar and vandola, in two forms of Castilian guitar and five-order cathalana, published in Barcelona in 1596. However, no copy of this edition. It was a work of remarkable success, since it is edited again in Lerida in 1627, and editions continue to appear, both in Spanish and in Catalan, until the eighteenth century.

The fame came mainly with four hundred Catalan aphorisms (1636), reprinted in many places of Catalonia until the nineteenth century to be used as a book of reading in schools.

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