JUAN (1740-1817), a native of Valencia. He is the author of a work entitled Dell' Origine, dei Progressi e dello Stato Attuale d'Ogni Letteratura, in 7 volumes 4to, the labour of upwards of twenty years, and full of erudition. It has passed through several editions. A just estimate of its merits will be found in Hallam's Introduction to the Literature of Europe, vol. i., and in Sismondi's Literature of the South of Europe (by Roscoe 1843), vol. i., p. 12, note.