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ANDRE DE RESENDE (1498-1573)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 182 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDRE DE See also:RESENDE (1498-1573)  , the See also:father of See also:archaeology in See also:Portugal, began See also:life as a Dominican See also:friar, but about 1540 passed over to the ranks of the See also:secular See also:clergy . He spent many years travelling in See also:Spain, See also:France and See also:Belgium, where he corresponded with See also:Erasmus and other learned men . He was also intimate with See also:King See also:John III. and his sons, and acted as See also:tutor to the See also:Infante D . Duarte . See also:Resende enjoyed considerable fame in his lifetime, but See also:modern writers have shown that he is neither accurate nor scrupulous . In Portuguese he wrote: (1) Historia da antiguidade da cidade de See also:Evora (ibid . 1553); (2) See also:Vida do Infante D . Duarte (See also:Lisbon, 1789) . His See also:chief Latin See also:work is the De Antiquitatibus Lusitaniae (Evora, 1593) . See the " Life " of Resende in Farinha's Colleccao das antiguidades de Evora (1785), and a See also:biographical-See also:critical See also:article by Rivara in the Revista Litteraria (See also:Oporto, 1839), iii . 340-62; also Cleynarts, Latin Letters . (E .

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