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Guevara, Fray Antonio de

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Person Born Died Gender Person ID
Fray Antonio de Guevara Treceño c.1481 Mondoñedo 1545 M P0785

Instrument(s) Professional group Social status Social sphere Why is the person listed?
vihuela guitar guitarra Author Ecclesiastical Court Author Author - poet, playwright

Years active Place active Century Region
Castilla 15cent/1/early Castilla
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Antonio de Guevara (c. 1481 – 3 April 1545) was a Spanish chronicler and moralist.
Born in Treceño in the province of Cantabria, he passed some of his youth at the court of Isabella I of Castile. In 1528 he entered the Franciscan order, and afterwards accompanied Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, during his journeys to Italy and other parts of Europe. He held successively the offices of court preacher, court historiographer, Bishop of Guadix and Bishop of Mondoñedo. His earliest work, entitled Reloj de principes, published at Valladolid in 1529, and, according to its author, the fruit of eleven years' labour, is a didactic novel, designed, after the manner of Xenophon's Cyropaedia, to delineate in a somewhat ideal way, for the benefit of modern sovereigns, the life and character of an ancient prince, Marcus Aurelius, distinguished for wisdom and virtue. It was often reprinted in Spanish; and before the close of the century had also been translated into Latin, Italian, French and English, an English translation by J Bourchier (London, 1546) and another by Thomas North. There is another version of this text, either earlier or later, Libro Aureo that Guevara did not want published, according to José Luis Alberg, it came out around the same time. That version in its definitive form was published by the great French Hispanist in 1929. (...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_de_Guevara acc. 07/01/15

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1539 Fray Antonio de Guevara, Epístolas familiares.
1539 Fray Antonio de Guevara, Libro llamado Menosprecio de corte y alabanza de aldea.


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