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

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