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

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