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DIEGO DE PAIVA DE ANDRADA (1528—1575)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 967 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDRADA (1528—1575)  , Portuguese theologian, was See also:born at See also:Coimbra, son of the See also:grand treasurer of See also:John III . His See also:original See also:bent was towards See also:foreign See also:mission . He earned distinction in 1562 at the See also:council of See also:Trent as See also:envoy of See also:King See also:Sebastian . Between 1562 and 1567 he published many controversial tracts, especially against the Lutheran, See also:Martin See also:Chemnitz (q.v.) . His first See also:tract, De Societatis Jesu Origine, led to his being erroneously presumed a Jesuit (P . Alegambe, Biblioth . Scriptorum S . J., 1676, p . 177) . His De Conciliorum Auctoritate was welcomed at See also:Rome as exalting the papal authority . See also:Posthumous were his Defensio Tridentinae Fidei, 1578 (remark-able for its learned statement of various opinions regarding the Immaculate Conception), and three sets of his sermons in Portuguese . His See also:nephew, DIEco, the younger (1586—1660), produced Chauleidos (1628) and other Latin poems, including sacred dramas; a novel, Casamento Perfeito (163o); and shone as a See also:historical critic .

See Bibliographie Universelle (1811) ; N . See also:

Antonio, Biblioth . Hisp . Nova (1783), i . 304; and for the nephew, See also:life by A . Dos Reys in Corp . Illust . Poet . See also:Lat . (1745) iii .

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