Alfonso de Valdés

Alfonso de Valdés (* 1490 in Cuenca in Castile; † October 3, 1532 in Vienna) was a Spanish humanist and politician.

Life

Valdés was the twin brother of the theologian and humanist Juan de Valdés. In 1520 he accompanied Charles V on his imperial coronation in Aachen. Since 1522 Valdés was secretary of the imperial chancellor Mercurino Gattinara, who had a special position of trust in the Emperor Charles V. and was both political and theological issues of the most influential advisers. He presented a report on the battle of Pavia ( 1525) and was probably one of the co-authors of the imperial letters from 1526/27 to Pope Clement VII and the College of Cardinals, which required the establishment of a general council. In the sack of Rome in 1527 he saw a criminal court for the sins of the papal city ( dialogue " Lactantius ", printed 1529). Valdés was inspired by the ideas of Erasmus of Rotterdam. He accompanied the emperor in 1529 to Italy, Germany and the Netherlands and undertook in 1530 at the Diet of Augsburg in an attempt to convey an influential negotiator between the Emperor and Philip Melanchthon ( the chief negotiator for the Protestants ). His efforts, however, were unsuccessful.

Works

Valdés, Alfonso de: Dialogo de Mercurio y Caron: en allende de que muchas Cosus graciosas en la guerra ... the del ans de 1521 hasta los Desafios de los Reyes de Francia [e ] Ynglaterra hechos al Emperador en el año de 1528th [ Ed. pr. ] [ S. L. ]

Valdés, Alfonso de: Discourse About Kayser Carolen of Fünfften with the Khönig Seen from France Francisco Valesio held battle before Pavien / and what otherwise after Gefängnuß and shipped King Francisci go: In Zwey books abgetheilt; Under erzehlung these stories Beyde / come at a / as Charon ... otherwise partly Mercurius ... together .... Amberg 1609.