Calle de San Isidoro de Sevilla
Recalls Isidore of Seville, the 7th-century Hispano-Roman archbishop and scholar who gathered much of ancient learning in his Etymologies.
The street is named for Isidore of Seville (c. 556-636), archbishop of the city and one of the greatest scholars of his age. Around 599 he succeeded his brother Leander at the head of the see of Seville, presided over the Fourth Council of Toledo in 633, and founded a church school that anticipated the later seminaries.
His fame rests above all on the Etymologies: twenty books in which he sought to condense the learning inherited from Antiquity, from grammar and medicine to astronomy and the trades. He explained words by seeking their root, convinced that the origin of a name revealed the nature of the thing. Copied tirelessly throughout the Middle Ages, it was printed more than ten times in the 15th and 16th centuries.
He is considered the last of the Latin Fathers of the Church. A later tradition linked him to the world of the internet for that determination of his to gather and order all available knowledge.