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LUIS DE AVILA Y ZUNIGA (c.1490 C. 1560)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 65 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUIS DE

AVILA Y ZUNIGA (c.1490 C. 1560)  ,
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Spanish historian, was born at Placentia . He was probably of low origin, but married a wealthy heiress of the
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family of Zuniga, whose name he added to his own . He rose rapidly in the favour of the emperor Charles V., served as ambassador to Rome, and was made
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grand
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commander of the order of the Knights of
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Alcantara . He accompanied the emperor to Africa in 1541, and having served during the war of the
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league of
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Schmalkalden, wrote a
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history of this war entitled Commentaries de la guerra de Alemana, hecha de Carlos V en el alto de 1546 y 1547 . This was first printed in 1548, and becoming very popular was translated into French, Dutch, German,
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Italian and Latin . As may be expected from the author's intimacy with Charles, the
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book is very partial to the emperor, and its misrepresentations have been severely criticized .

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