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town in the See also:province of See also:Zeeland, See also:Holland, on the See also:island of See also:South Beveland, 112 m. by See also:rail E. of See also:Middelburg. Pop. (Igoo) 6919. It is connected by a See also:short See also:canal with the See also:East See also:Scheldt, and has a See also:good See also:harbour (1819) defended by a fort. The See also:principal buildings are the interesting See also:Gothic See also:church (1423) and the picturesque old town See also:hall (restored 1771). There are various educational and charitable institutions. Goes has preserved for centuries its prosperous position as the See also:market-town of the island. The See also:chief See also:industries are See also:boat-See also:building, See also:brewing, See also:book-binding and See also:cigar-making. The town had its origin in the See also:castle of Oostende, built here by the See also:noble' See also:family of Borssele. It received a See also:charter See also:early in the 15th See also:century from the countess See also:Jacoba of Holland, who frequently stayed at the castle. the miseries as well as relate the glories of the See also:period, and so to offend some of the most powerful families. Goes had already written a See also:Chronicle of See also:Prince See also:John (afterwards John II.), and when, after more than eight years' labour, he produced the First See also:Part of his Chronicle of See also:King Manoel (1566), a See also:chorus of attacks greeted it, the edition was destroyed, and he was compelled to issue a revised version.

He brought out the three other parts in 1566-1567, though chapters 23 to 27 of the Third Part were so mutilated by the censorship that the printed See also:

text differs largely from the MS. Hitherto Goes, notwithstanding his Liberal-ism, had escaped the See also:Inquisition, though in 1540 his Fides, religio, moresque Aethiopum had been prohibited by the chief inquisitor, See also:Cardinal D. Henrique; but the denunciation of See also:Father See also:Rodriguez in 1545, which had been vainly renewed in 1550, was now brought into See also:action, and in 1571 he was arrested to stand his trial. There seems to be no doubt that the Inquisition made itself on this occasion, as on others, the See also:instrument of private enmity; for eighteen months Goes See also:lay See also:ill in See also:prison, and then he was condemned, though he had lived for See also:thirty years as a faithful See also:Catholic, and the worst that could be proved against him was that in his youth he had spoken against Indulgences, disbelieved in auricular See also:confession, and consorted with heretics. He was sentenced to a See also:term of reclusion, and his See also:property was confiscated to the See also:crown. After he had abjured his errors in private, he was sent at the end of 1572 to do See also:penance at the monastery of See also:Batalha. Later he was allowed to return See also:home to Alemquer, where he died on the 3oth of See also:January 1 574. He was buried in the church of Nossa Senhora da Varzea. Damiao de Goes was a See also:man of wide culture and genial and courtly See also:manners, a skilled musician and a good linguist. He wrote both Portuguese and Latin with classic strength and simplicity, and his See also:style is See also:free from affectation and rhetorical ornaments. His portrait by Albrecht Diirer shows an open, intelligent See also:face, and the See also:record of his See also:life proves him to have been upright and. fearless. His prosperity doubtless excited ill-will, but above all, his ideas, advanced for See also:Portugal, his See also:foreign ways, outspokenness and honesty contributed to the tragedy of his end, at a See also:time when the forces of ignorant reaction held the ascendant.

He had, it may be presumed, given some umbrage to the See also:

court by condemning, in the Chronicle of King Manoel, the royal ingratitude to distinguished public servants, though he received a See also:pension and other rewards for that See also:work, and he had certainly offended the See also:nobility by his See also:administration of the See also:archive See also:office and by exposing false genealogical claims in his Nobiliario. He paid the See also:penalty for telling the truth, as he knew it, in an See also:age when an historian had to choose between flattery of the See also:great and silence. The Chronicle of King Manoel was the first See also:official See also:history of a Portuguese reign to be written in a See also:critical spirit, and Damiao de Goes has the See also:honour of having been the first Portuguese royal chronicler to deserve the name of an historian. His Portuguese See also:works include Chronica do felicissimo rei Dom Emanuel (parts i. and ii., See also:Lisbon, 1566, parts iii. and iv., ib. 1567). Other See also:editions appeared in Lisbon in 1619 and 1749 and in See also:Coimbra in 1790. Chronica do principe Dom foam (Lisbon, 1558), with subsequent editions in 1567 and 1724 in Lisbon and in 1790 in Coimbra. Livro de Marco Tullio Ciceram chamado Catam See also:Mayor (See also:Venice, 1538). This is a See also:translation of See also:Cicero's De senectute. His Latin works, published separately, comprise: (I) Legatio magni imperatoris Presbiteri Joannis, &c. (See also:Antwerp, 1532) ; (2) Legatio Davidis Ethiopiae regis, &'c. (See also:Bologna, 1533) ; (3) See also:Commentarii rerum gestarum in See also:India (See also:Louvain, 1539) ; (4) Fides, religio, moresque Aethiopum (Louvain, 154o),incorporating Nos.(' ) and (2) ;(5)Hispania(Louvain, 1542); (6) See also:Aliquot epistolae Sadoleti Bembi et aliorum clarissimorum virorum, d c.

(Louvain, 1544) ; (7) See also:

Damiani a Goes equitis Lusitani aliquot opuscula (Louvain, 544) ; (8) Urbis Lovaniensis obsidia(Lisbon, 1546) ; (9) De hello Cambaico.ultimo (Louvain, 1549) ; (10) Urbis Olisiponensis descriptio (See also:Evora, 1554) ; (i 1) Epistola ad Hieron_vmum Cardo-e sum (Lisbon, 1556). Most of the above went through several editions, and many were afterwards included with new works in such collections as No. (7), and seven sets of Opuscula appeared, all incomplete. Nos. (3), (4) and (5) suffered See also:mutilation in subsequent editions, at the hands of the censors, because they offended against religious orthodoxy or family See also:pride.

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