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Professor of Latin, Torrent used humor consciously, as a very effective teaching method, but always combined with an absolute demand for perfection at work. Perfection to which his students should aspire not to obtain good grades, but to be better in everything, since everything in the texts ended leading, from Torrent's hand, to the same conclusion: effort, work, respect, knowledge of the world and culture, make better citizens, better professionals, better people. Torrent was well aware of the importance of awakening the critical sense, and he did it by revealing rhetorical tricks.
He left written works where he dumped his deep knowledge of the Latin language and culture; Suffice it to cite his translation of Estacio for Gredos or of Plau
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