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GOES, DAMIAO DE (1502—1574)

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GOES, DAMIAO DE (1502—1574) , Portuguese humanist, was See also:

born of a patrician See also:family at Alemquer, in See also:February 1502. Under See also:King See also:John III. he was employed abroad for many years from 1523 on See also:diplomatic and commercial See also:missions, and he travelled over the greater See also:part of See also:Europe. He was intimate with the leading scholars of the See also:time, was acquainted with See also:Luther and other See also:Protestant divines, and in 1532 became the See also:pupil and friend of See also:Erasmus. Goes took his degree at See also:Padua in 1538 after a four years' course. In 1537, at the instance of his friend See also:Cardinal See also:Sadoleto, he undertook to mediate between the See also:Church and the See also:Lutherans, but failed through the attitude of the Protestants. He married in See also:Flanders a See also:rich and See also:noble Dutch See also:lady, D. See also:Joanna de Hargen, and settled at See also:Louvain, then the See also:literary centre of the See also:Low Countries, where he was living in 1542 when the See also:French besieged the See also:town. He was given the command of the defending forces, and saved Louvain, but was taken prisoner and confined for nine months in See also:France, till he obtained his freedom by a heavy See also:ransom. He was rewarded, however, by a See also:grant of arms from See also:Charles V. He finally returned to See also:Portugal in 1545, with a view of becoming See also:tutor to the king's son, but he failed to obtain this See also:post, owing to the denunciations of See also:Father See also:Simon See also:Rodriguez, provincial of the See also:Jesuits, who accused Goes of favouring the Lutheran doctrines and of being a See also:disciple of Erasmus. Nevertheless in 1548 he was appointed See also:chief keeper of the archives and royal chronicler, and at once introduced some much-needed reforms into the See also:administration of his See also:office. In 1558 he was given a See also:commission to write a See also:history of the reign of King Manoel, a task previously confided to Joao de See also:Barros, but relinquished by him.

It was an onerous undertaking for a conscientious historian, since it was necessary to expose See also:

numbers of books by Goes; (3) As Variantes das Chronicas Portuguezas (See also:Porto, 1881); (4) Damiao de Goes: Novos Estudos (Porto, 1897) ; (5) As Carters Latinos— in the See also:press (1906). Snr. Vasconcellos only printed a very limited number of copies of these studies for See also:distribution among See also:friends, so that they are rare. (B) Guilherme J. C. Henriques, Ineditos Goesianos, vol. i. (See also:Lisbon, 1896), vol. ii. (containing the proceedings at the trial by the See also:Inquisition) (Lisbon, 1898). (C) A. P. See also:Lopes de Mendonca, Damian de Goes e a Inquisicao de Portugal (Lisbon, 1839). (D) Dr See also:Sousa See also:Viterbo, Damiao de Goes e D.

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Antonio Pinheiro (See also:Coimbra, 1895). (E) Dr Theophilo See also:Braga, Historia da Universidade de Coimbra (Lisbon, 1892), i. 374-380. (F) Menendez y Pelayo, Historia de los Heter. Espanoles, ii. 129-143. (E.

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