JUAN See also: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
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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
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In 1785 he became See also:commissary of the See also:Holy See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office at Logrono, and in 1789 its general secretary at See also:Madrid
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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
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On the return of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
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)
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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
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to quit France
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He died at Madrid on the 5th of See also:February 1823
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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
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The English See also:translation of the Historia (See also:London, 1826) is abridged
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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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