Oliva Sabuco de Barrera was a Renaissance philosopher who was born in 1562 in Alcaraz (Albacete).
She is the daughter of an apothecary, since she was little she felt an enormous interest in the world of medicine or botany.
In the year 1587 he published a New Philosophy of the Nature of Man, not known or achieved by the great ancient Philosophers, which improves Life and Human Health, a work of a scientific nature that was a great success in its time, being published on multiple occasions although it was the second collected and the fourth expurgated by the Inquisition.
She sabuco she sought to reform the teaching of medicine and philosophy, since she considered them wrong.
One of her most important contributions was the treatment that she proposed for the plague, determining that the contagion occurred through the air, something that contradicted what was thought at the time.
Also, the description that she made of the circulation of the blood is very interesting.
As a thinker, she was also ahead of her time when addressing issues as modern as individual freedom, human dignity or pacifism.
Both the work and the author received great praise in their time, for their scientific, philosophical and even literary content.
Oliva Sabuco was considered one of the most brilliant pens of the Spanish Golden Age, having as admirers characters of the stature of Lope de Vega, who called her "tenth muse", something truly extraordinary since, like other scholars of her time, he gained a great public role in a restricted and masculinized world generally closed to women.
As she has happened with other great women, she Sabuco was ignored for the simple fact of being a woman, despite the fact that her work was just as interesting as that of some men.
Despite the fact that during her lifetime she was recognized by her contemporaries, soon her ideas were adopted by others as her own and centuries later her talent was denied to her.
