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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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DIEGO DE PAIVA DE

ANDRADA (1528—1575)  , Portuguese theologian, was born at
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Coimbra, son of the
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grand treasurer of John III . His
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original bent was towards
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foreign
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mission . He earned distinction in 1562 at the council of Trent as envoy of King Sebastian . Between 1562 and 1567 he published many controversial tracts, especially against the Lutheran, Martin Chemnitz (q.v.) . His first 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 Rome as exalting the papal authority .
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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
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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
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historical critic .

See Bibliographie Universelle (1811) ; N .

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

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