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Abstract
In 1590 Juan Bautista Villalpando (1552-1608) arrived in Rome to print his monumental treaty that expounds Ezekiel prophecy, titled: In Ezechielem Explanationes, whose heart was the reconstruction of Solomon's temple. The work was not printed until 1605 due to te unceasing problems that the Andalusian Jesuit had to face: firstly the Pope's hostility followed by criticism from his order and by the dispute with the theologian Jerónimo Prado, his partner in the task. The ambiguous nature itself of the financing that Felipe II granted to him indicates complicated diplomatic exchanges between the Pope and the Spanish king, with the jesuit order in the middle. New archive documents produce new data about the complicated event.