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JUAN ANTONIO LLORENTE (1756-1823)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 832 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTONIO See also:LLORENTE (1756-1823)  , See also:Spanish historian, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:March 1756 at Rincon de See also:Soto in See also:Aragon . He studied at the university of See also:Saragossa, and, having been ordained See also:priest, became See also:vicar-See also:general to the See also:bishop of See also:Calahorra in 1782 . In 1785 he became See also:commissary of the See also:Holy See also:Office at Logrono, and in 1789 its general secretary at See also:Madrid . In the crisis of ,8o8 See also:Llorente identified himself with the Bonapartists, and was engaged for a few years in superintending the See also:execution of the See also:decree for the suppression of the monastic orders, and in examining the archives of the See also:Inquisition . On the return of See also:King See also:Ferdinand VII. to See also:Spain in 1814 he withdrew to See also:France, where he published his See also:great See also:work, Historia critica de la inquisicion de Espana (See also:Paris, 1815–1817) . Translated into See also:English, See also:French, See also:German, Dutch and See also:Italian, it attracted much See also:attention in See also:Europe, and involved its author in considerable persecution, which, on the publication of his Portraits politiques See also:des popes in 1822, culminated in a See also:peremptory See also:order to quit France . He died at Madrid on the 5th of See also:February 1823 . Both the See also:personal See also:character and the See also:literary accuracy of Llorente have been assailed, but although he was not an exact historian there is no doubt that he made an honest use of documents See also:relating to the Inquisition which are no longer extant . The English See also:translation of the Historia (See also:London, 1826) is abridged . Llorente also wrote Memorias See also:Para la historia de la revolution espanola (Paris, 1814-1816), translated into French (Paris, 1815-1819); Noticias historicas sabre See also:las tres provincial va congadas (Madrid, 1806–18o8) ; an autobiography, Noticia biografica (Paris, 1818), and other See also:works .

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