For other people of the same name, see Francisco Nunez (disambiguation).
Francisco Nunez de Oria, Doria, Orea or Coria, (Casarrubios del Monte, province of Toledo, 16th century), physician, hygienist, sexologist, Spanish poet and humanist of the Renaissance.
Biography Little is known about it so far. According to Nicolás Antonio was a doctor of medicine and a Latin poet of no small degree, and wrote Regiment and notices of Health, one of the regimina sanitatis most relevant among those printed in Renaissance Spain; The work is divided into two parts; the first one analyzes all the foods consumed in its time, including some new arrivals of America, and they give precise indications on the effects on the health of each one and the healthiest forms of consuming them; in the second, health advice is offered on coitus and hygiene; this second part is actually his Tractado of the use of women, who knew other issues loose or inserted in other works of the author. In Latin hexameters he wrote The Lyra Heroica, divided in 14 books, on the great epic hero Bernardo del Carpio; carries a prologue of the humanist Juan López de Hoyos. He was born in Casarrubios del Monte and his name appears as the author of a poem dedicated to Felipe II. He wrote treaties of hygiene, medicine and sexology, being in this last subject one of the pioneers in Spain by its Tractado of the use of the women. Works Bibliography
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