ANDRE DE

See also:

• ANDRE DE RESENDE (1498-1573)
• RESENDE, GARCIA DE (1470-1536)

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