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Antonio de Guevara

(Guevara, Antonio de, -1545?)

Presumed portrait of Antonio de Guevara. The portrait detail depicts the writer in his bishop's mitre, seated at a desk, holding a pen in his right hand, his left hand upon a page or manuscript, a book upon the desk to his left. The image is from the 16th century from the Franciscan monastery at Valladolid. Image reproduced in the book: Redondo, Augustin. Antonio de Guevara (1480?-1545) et l'Espagne de son temps. Librairie Droz, 1976. Frontispiece. Detail.
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Antonio de Guevara (c. 1481 – 3 April 1545) was a Spanish bishop and author. In 1527, he was named royal chronicler to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. His first book Libro áureo first appeared in pirated editions the following year. This pseudo-historical book of incidents and letters from the life of Marcus Aurelius (known in a later expanded edition as Relox des principes) was translated into nearly every language of Europe, including Russian, Swedish, Hungarian, Polish, Armenian, and Romanian. The popularity of Guevara's book led scholar and translator Méric Casaubon to remark that no book besides the Bible was so often translated as Guevara's Relox de principes, or Dial of Princes. Besides his book of Marcus Aurelius, Guevara wrote eight other books, some of which continued to be translated and republished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (From Wikipedia)

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