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DIEGO DE SAAVEDRA FAJARDO (1584-1648)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 955 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DIEGO DE

SAAVEDRA
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FAJARDO (1584-1648)
  , diplomatist and man of letters, was born of a noble
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family at Aigezares (
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Murcia) on the 6th of May 1584 . Educated for the church at Salamanca, he took orders, and in 16o6 was appointed secretary to Cardinal Gaspar Borgia, the
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Spanish ambassador at Rome . Ultimately he became Spanish plenipotentiary at Regensburg in 1636 and at Munster in 1645 . He returned to Spain in 1646 and took up the
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post of member of the council of the Indies to which he had been nominated in 1636, but shortly afterwards retired to a monastery, where he died in 1648 . In 164o he published his Empresas politicas, 6 idea de un principe politico cristiano, a
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hundred short essays on the
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education of a prince; these were written primarily for the son of Philip IV . Its sententious style is still admired in Spain . It passed through a number of
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editions and was translated in several
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languages, the
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English version being by Astry (2 vols., 8vo,
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London, 1700) . An unfinished
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historical
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work, entitled Corona g6tica, castellana, y austriaca politicamente ilustrada, appeared in 1646 . Another work ascribed to Saavedra, the Republica literaria, was published posthumously in 1670; it is a satirical discussion on some of the leading characters in the ancient and
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modern
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world of letters . Collected editions of his
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works appeared at Antwerp in 1677-1678, and again at
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Madrid in 1789-1790; see also vol.
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xxv. of the Bibl. de alit. esp . (1853) .

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