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ANTONIO DE GUEVARA (c. 1490-1544)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 674 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTONIO DE See also:GUEVARA (c. 1490-1544)  , See also:Spanish chronicler and moralist, was a native of the See also:province of See also:Alava, and passed some of his earlier years at the See also:court of See also:Isabella, See also:queen of See also:Castile . In 1528 he entered the Franciscan See also:order, and afterwards accompanied the See also:emperor See also:Charles V. during his journeys to See also:Italy and other parts of See also:Europe . After having held successively the offices of court preacher, court historiographer, See also:bishop of See also:Guadix and bishop of Mondonedo, he died in 1544 . His earliest See also:work, entitled Reloj de principes, published at See also:Valladolid in 1529, and, according to its author, the See also:fruit of eleven years' labour, is a didactic novel, designed, after the manner of See also:Xenophon's Cyro• paedia, to delineate, in a somewhat ideal way for the benefit of See also:modern sovereigns, the See also:life and See also:character of an See also:ancient See also:prince, See also:Marcus Aurelius, distinguished for See also:wisdom and virtue . It was often reprinted in Spanish; and before the See also:close of the See also:century had also been translated into Latin, See also:Italian, See also:French and See also:English, 'I an English See also:translation being by J . See also:Bourchier (See also:London, 1546) and another being by T . See also:North . It is difficult now to See also:account for its extraordinary popularity, its thought being neither just nor profound, while its See also:style is stiff and affected . It gave rise to a See also:literary controversy, however, of See also:great bitterness and violence, the author having ventured without See also:warrant to claim for it an See also:historical character, appealing to an imaginary " See also:manuscript in See also:Florence." Other See also:works of See also:Guevara are the Decada de los Cesares (Valladolid, 1539), or "Lives of the Ten See also:Roman Emperors," in See also:imitation of the manner of See also:Plutarch and Suetonius; and the Epistolas familiares (Valladolid, 1539-1545), sometimes called " The See also:Golden Letters," often printed in See also:Spain, and translated into all the See also:principal See also:languages of Europe . They are in reality a collection of stiff and formal essays which have See also:long ago fallen into merited oblivion .

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