There he founded several Colleges and made important changes in the organization of the University of San Marcos. He instituted the tribunal del consulado, a special court and corporation to regulate commercial affairs generally, increased the navy and the artillery, and gave a great impulse to mining in the province of Chucuito. On the death of Philip, Borja embarked to return to Spain, 31 December 1621.

His best-known works are "Naples recuperada por el Rey Alfonso," a poem (1651); "Obras en Verso" (Antwerp, 1654); and "Oraciones y Meditaciones de la Vida de Jesucristo" (Brussels, 1661).

BORJA Y ARAGON, Francisco (bor'-ha), a descendant of the kings of Aragon, prince of Esquilache and viceroy of Peru, born in Madrid in 1582 ; died there, 26 September 1658. He studied in Spain, and had won a good literary reputation and discharged high offices in the court of Philip III. when he was appointed viceroy of Peru in 1614. There he founded several Colleges and made important changes in the organization of the University of San Marcos. He instituted the tribunal del consulado, a special court and corporation to regulate commercial affairs generally, increased the navy and the artillery, and gave a great impulse to mining in the province of Chucuito. On the death of Philip, Borja embarked to return to Spain, 31 December 1621. His best-known works are "Naoles recuperada pot el Rey Alfonso," a poem (1651); "Obras en Verso" (Antwerp, 1654); and "Oraciones y Meditaciones de la Vida de Jesucristo" (Brussels, 1661).