Juan del Caño, a friend of Arias Montano, was a native of Andújar, where he was born in 1521. He began his studies in Grammar at Salamanca as a disciple of Master León de Castro, whom he replaced in his Greek classes, at his house and probably at the Colegio Mayor de Oviedo. Some years later he would have to confront his former teacher on several occasions because of the fervour with which León de Castro defended his views and positions on Sacred Scripture, most especially during the relentless harassment that León directed against BAM’s Bible. Shortly after 1546, without leaving Salamanca, Juan del Caño entered the service of Don Juan de Quiñones. At the beginning of the academic year 1550–51 he joined the University of Santiago de Compostela, where, according to his own testimony, he held the chair of Sacred Scripture for four years, that is, until the academic year 1553–54. On 17 October 1554 his oposiciones for the chair of Sacred Scripture of the Church of León took place. In 1560 BAM spent the year completing his novitiate at San Marcos in León, and it was around this time that the scholar from Fregenal included in his Rhetoricorum libri quattuor, IV, vv. 1065–1095, an enthusiastic praise of Juan del Caño’s biblical teaching, elevating him as a model of orators and an outstanding biblical scholar. In 1577 Juan del Caño moved permanently to Salamanca to occupy the prebend left vacant in that church by Master Francisco Sancho. He then continued his teaching activity in the Church and University of Salamanca and went on to play his role as an arbiter in biblical disputes. He died in 1583, probably in Salamanca, where he was at that time serving as professor of Sacred Scripture. Cf. G. Morocho Gayo, «Juan del Caño, maestro de biblistas», in Humanismo y pervivencia del mundo clásico. Homenaje al profesor Luis Gil (Cádiz, 1997), II. 3, 1361-1378.
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