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GIL GONZALEZ DE AVILA (c. 1577-1658)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 64 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AVILA (c. 1577-1658)  , See also:Spanish biographer and See also:antiquary, was See also:born and died at See also:Avila . He was made historiographer of See also:Castile in 1612, and of the Indies in 1641 . Of his numerous See also:works, the most valuable are his Teatro de See also:las Grandezas See also:des See also:Madrid (Madrid, 1623, sqq.), and his Teatro Eclesiastico, descriptive of the See also:metropolitan churches andcathedrals of Castile, with lives of the prelates (Madrid, 1645-1653, 4 vols . 4to) .

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