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DON PEDRO LOPEZ DE AYALA (1332–1407)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 71 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DON PEDRO See also:LOPEZ DE See also:AYALA (1332–1407)  , See also:Spanish states-See also:man, historian and poet, was See also:born at See also:Vittoria in 1332 . He first came into prominence at the See also:court of See also:Peter the Cruel, whose cause he finally deserted; he greatly distinguished himself in subsequent See also:campaigns, during which he was twice made prisoner, by the See also:Black See also:Prince at Najera (1367) and by the Portuguese at Aljubarrota (1385) . A favourite of See also:Henry II. and See also:John I. of See also:Castile, he was made See also:grand See also:chancellor of the See also:realm by Henry III. in 1398 . A brave officer and an able diplomat, See also:Ayala was one of the most cultivated Spaniards of his See also:time, at once historian, translator and poet . Of his many See also:works the most important are his See also:chronicles of the four See also:kings of Castile during whose reigns he lived; they give a generally accurate See also:account of scenes and events, most of which he had witnessed; he also wrote a See also:long satirical and didactic poem, interesting as a picture of his See also:personal experiences and of contemporary morality . The first See also:part of his See also:chronicle, covering only the reign of Peter the Cruel, was printed at See also:Seville in 1495; the first See also:complete edition was printed in 1779–1780 in the collection of CrOnicas Espanolas, under the auspices of the Spanish Royal See also:Academy of See also:History . Ayala died at'See also:Calahorra in 1407 . See Rafael Floranes, " See also:Vida literaria de Pedro See also:Lopez de Ayala," in the Documentos ineditos See also:para la hisloria de Espana, vols. xix. and xx . ; F . W . Schirrmacher, ".See also:Tiber See also:die Glaubwiirdigkeit der Chronik Ayalas," in Geschichte von Spanien (See also:Berlin, 1902), vol . V. pp .

510-532 .

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