Travesía de San Isidoro de Sevilla

Honours Isidore of Seville, the seventh-century bishop and author whose encyclopedia, the Etymologies, was a bedside book of the whole Middle Ages.

The name leads to a scholar who wanted to fit the whole world into a book. Isidore was born around 556 and, after the death of his brother Leander, held the episcopal see of Seville for more than three decades, in the heart of Visigothic Spain. He gathered all the learning that reached him from Antiquity into a monumental work: the Etymologies, twenty books that explained the universe starting from the name of each thing, from grammar to farming. Medieval copyists imitated it tirelessly. His drive to compile and link all available knowledge earned him, centuries later, a curious patronage, that of the internet, an attribution spread since the turn of the millennium though never made official. The side street belongs to a corner of Las Acacias where several streets recall Sevillian saints and places. It runs parallel and joined to the Calle de San Isidoro de Sevilla, from which it takes its name.