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OSORIO, JERONYMO (1506-1580)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 353 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OSORIO, JERONYMO (1506-1580) , Portuguese historian, was a native of See also:Lisbon and son of the Ouvidor Geral of See also:India. In 1519 his See also:mother sent him to See also:Salamanca to study See also:civil See also:law, and in 1525 he went on to See also:Paris to study See also:philosophy, and there became intimate with See also:Peter See also:Fabre, one of the founders of the Society of Jesus. Returning to See also:Portugal, Osorio next proceeded for See also:theology to See also:Bologna, where he made such a name that See also:King See also:John III. invited him in 1536-1537 to lecture on scripture in the reorganized university of See also:Coimbra. He returned to Lisbon in 1540, and acted as secretary to See also:Prince Luiz, and as See also:tutor to his son, the See also:prior of Crato, obtaining also two benefices in the See also:diocese of See also:Vizeu. In 1542 he printed in Lisbon his See also:treatise De nobilitate. After the See also:death of Prince Luiz in 1553, he with-See also:drew from See also:court to his churches. He was named See also:archdeacon of See also:Evora in 156o, and much against his will became See also:bishop of See also:Silves in 1564. The See also:Cardinal Prince See also:Henry, who had bestowed these honours, desired to employ him at Lisbon in See also:state business when King See also:Sebastian took up the reins of See also:power in 1568, but Osorio excused himself on the ground of his See also:pastoral duties, though he showed his zeal for the See also:commonwealth by See also:writing two letters, one in which he dissuaded the king from going to See also:Africa, the other sent during the latter's first expedition there (1574), in which he called on him to return to his See also:kingdom. Sebastian looked with disfavour on opponents of his See also:African See also:adventure, and Osorio found it prudent to leave Portugal for See also:Parma and See also:Rome on the pretext of a visit ad limina. His scruples regarding See also:residence, and the appeals of the king and the Cardinal Prince, prevented him enjoying for See also:long the hospitality of See also:Pope See also:Gregory XIII., and he returned to his diocese and died at See also:Tavira on the loth of See also:August 1580. An exemplary See also:prelate, a learned See also:scholar and an able critic, Osorio gained a See also:European reputation by writing in Latin, then the lingua franca of the studious throughout Christendom, and the perfection of his See also:prose See also:style caused him to be named by contemporaries " the Portuguese See also:Cicero." His well-stocked library was carried off from See also:Faro when the See also:earl of See also:Essex captured the See also:town in 1596, and many of the books were bestowed on the Bodleian at See also:Oxford. His See also:principal See also:works written in Latin include: (I) De gloria et nobilitate civile et christiana, an See also:English version of which by W.

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London in 1576. (2) De justitia. (3) De regis institutione et disciplina. (4) De See also:vera sapientia. (5) De See also:rebus Emmanuelis (1586), a See also:history of the reign of King Emanuel which is little more than a See also:translation of the See also:chronicle on the same subject by Damiao de Goes. Osorio's See also:book was turned into Portuuese by F. M. do See also:Nascimento (q.v.), into See also:French by J. See also:Crispin 2 vols., See also:Geneva, 161o), and an English See also:paraphrase in 2 vols. by See also:Gibbs came out in London in 1752. His See also:Opera omnia were published by his See also:nephew (4 vols., Rome, 1592). Two of his polemical See also:treatises have been translated into English, his See also:Epistle to See also:Elizabeth uene of See also:England by R. Shacklock (See also:Antwerp, 1565), and his See also:Con- Ytation of M. W.

Haddon by J. Fen (See also:

Louvain, 1568). His Portuguese epistles, including the two before mentioned, were printed in Lisbon in two See also:editions in 1818 and 1819, and in Paris in 1859. For his See also:biography see Obras de D. F. A. See also:Lobo, bishop of Vizeu, i. 293- 01 (Lisbon, 1848). (E.

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