DIEGO HURTADO DE See also:MENDOZA (1503-1575)
, See also:Spanish novelist, poet, diplomatist and historian, a younger son of the See also:count of Tendillas, See also:governor of See also:Granada, was See also:born in that See also:city in 1503
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The celebrated See also:marquis of See also:Santillana was his See also:great-grandfather
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On leaving the university of See also:Salamanca, See also:Mendoza abandoned his intention of taking orders, served under See also:Charles V. in See also:Italy, and attended lectures at the See also:universities of See also:Bologna, See also:Padua and See also:Rome
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In 1537 he was sent to See also:England to arrange a See also:marriage between See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII. and the duchess of See also:Milan, as well as a marriage between See also:Prince See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis of See also:Portugal and See also:Mary Tudor
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Despite the failure of his See also:mission, he preserved the confidence of the See also:emperor, and in 1539 was appointed See also:ambassador at See also:Venice; there he patronized the Aldi, procured copies of the See also:Greek See also:manuscripts belonging to See also:Cardinal See also:Bessarion, and acquired other rare codices from the monastery of See also:Mount See also:Athos
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The first edition of See also:Josephus was printed (1544) from the texts in Mendoza's collection
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He acted for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time as military governor of See also:Siena, represented See also:Spain diplomatically at the See also:council of See also:Trent, and in 1547 was nominated See also:special plenipotentiary at Rome, where he remained till 1554
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He was never a favourite with See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip II., and a See also:quarrel with a courtier resulted in his banishment from See also:court (See also:June 1568)
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The remaining years of his See also:life, which were spent at Granada, he devoted to the study of Arabic, to See also:poetry, and to his See also:history of the Moorish insurrection of 1568-1570
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He died in 1575
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His Guerra de Granada was published at See also:Lisbon by Luis Tribaldos de See also:Toledo in 1627; the delay was doubtless due to Mendoza's severe See also:criticism of contemporaries who survived him
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In some passages the author deliberately imitates See also:Sallust and See also:Tacitus; his See also:style is, on the whole, vivid and trenchant,
his See also:information is exact, and in See also:critical insight he is not inferior to See also:Mariana
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The attribution to Mendoza of Lazarillo de Tames is rejected by all competent scholars, but that he excelled in See also:picaresque malice is proved by his indecorous verses written in the old Castilian metres and in the more elaborate See also:measures imported from Italy
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Mendoza is believed to be the author of the letters to Feliciano de See also:Silva and to See also:Captain Salazar, published by See also:Antonio Paz y Melia in Sales Espanolas (See also:Madrid, 1go0)
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See A
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Senan y Alonso, D
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Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, apuntes biogrdfico-criticos (Granada, 1886) ; See also:Calendar of Letters and Papet's See also:foreign and domestic, Henry VIII., vols. xii. and xiii.; C
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Graux, Essai sur l'origine du fonds grec de l'Escurial (See also:Paris, 188a); R
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Foulch6-Delbosc, " Etude sur la Guerra de Granada " in the Revue hispanique (Paris, 1894), vol. i
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