Antonio de Guevara

Antonio de Guevara (* 1480 in Treceño, Cantabria, † April 3, 1545 in Mondoñedo, Lugo Province, Spain) was a Spanish writer of the province of Álava and imaginative historian. He decorated his few templates with fictional representations.

Life

He came from an impoverished nobility, came at a young age to the court of Emperor Charles V and held as a Franciscan high office. He was the official chronicler, inquisitor, Bishop of Guadix and Mondoñedo in A Coruña. In his moral works he recommends turning away from the ideal of courtly life.

Works

His work had great success in Europe and practiced, for example, influence on Michel de Montaigne and Grimmelshausenmuseum from.

• Relox de Príncipe, o Libro áureo de Marco Aurelio. ( Fürstenuhr or Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius, 1529, a kind of didactic novel in letter form )
• Epistolas familiares. ( invented for the most part )
• Menosprecio de corte y Alabanza de aldea ( contempt of the court and praise of the village, in 1539, moral satire)
• Aviso de privados y doctrina de Cortesanos. ( 1539)
• German: Court school in the translation of Aegidius Albertinus 1600
• Opera omnia historico - politica ... In Drey part abgetheilt ... offset by Lord Aegidium Albertinum ... auss the Hispanic language in the Teutsche auffs industrious. At jetzo gemehret on new overlooked ... including a vollkömlichen register. 3 parts in 1 vol