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See also:HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, See also:ANTONIO DE (1549-1625) , See also:Spanish historian, was See also:born at Cuellar, in the See also:province of See also:Segovia in See also:Spain. His See also:father, Roderigo de Tordesillas, and his See also:mother, See also:Agnes de Herrera, were both of See also:good See also:family. After studying for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in his native See also:country, Herrera proceeded to See also:Italy, and there became secretary to See also:Vespasian Gonzago, with whom, on his See also:appointment as See also:viceroy of See also:Navarre, he returned to Spain. Gonzago, sensible of his secretary's abilities, commended him to See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip II. of Spain; and that monarch appointed Herrera first historiographer of the Indies, and one of the historiographers of See also:Castile. Placed thus in the enjoyment of an ample See also:salary, Herrera devoted the See also:rest of his See also:life to the pursuit of literature, retaining his offices until the reign of Philip IV., by whom he was appointed secretary of See also:state very shortly before his See also:death, which took See also:place at See also:Madrid on the 29th of See also:March 1625. Of Herrera's writings, the most valuable is his Historia See also:general de los hechos de los Castellanos en See also:las islas y tierra firme del See also:Mar Oceano (Madrid, 1601-1615, 4 vols.), a See also:work which relates the See also:history of the Spanish-See also:American colonies from 1492 to 1554. The author's See also:official position gave him See also:access to the state papers and to other See also:authentic See also:sources not attainable by other writers, while he did not See also:scruple to See also:borrow largely from other See also:MSS., especially from that of Bartolome de Las Casas. He used his facilities carefully and judiciously; and the result is a work on the whole accurate and unprejudiced, and quite indispensable to the student either of the history of the See also:early colonies, or of theinstitutions and customs of the aboriginal American peoples. Although it is written in the See also:form of See also:annals, mistakes are not wanting, and several glaring anachronisms have been pointed out by M. J. See also:Quintana. " If," to quote Dr See also:Robertson, " by attempting to relate the various occurrences in the New See also:World in a strict See also:chronological See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, the arrangement of events in his work had not been rendered so perplexed, disconnected and obscure that it is an unpleasant task to collect from different parts of his See also:book and piece together the detached shreds of a See also:story, he might justly have been ranked among the most eminent historians of his country." This work was republished in 1730, and has been translated into See also:English by J. See also:Stevens (See also:London, 1740), and into other See also:European See also:languages.
Herrera's other See also:works are the following: Historia de to sucedido en Escocia a Inglaterra en quarenta y quatro annos que vivio la reyna Maria Estuarda (Madrid, 1589); Cinco libros de la historia de See also:Portugal, y conquista de las isles de los Acores, 1582—1583 (Madrid, 1591); Historia de to sucedido en See also:Francia, 1585-1594 (Madrid, 1598); Historia general del mundo del tiempo del rey Felipe II, desde 1559 haste su muerte (Madrid, 16or-1612, 3 vols.) ; Tratado, relation, y discurso historico de los movimientos de See also:Aragon (Madrid, 1612) ; Comentarios de los hechos de los Espanoles, Franceses, y Venecianos en Italia, &c., 1281—7559 (Madrid, 1624, seq.). See W. H. See also:Prescott, History of the See also:Conquest of See also:Mexico, vol. ii.
End of Article: HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, ANTONIO DE (1549-1625)
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