Alfonso de Valdés

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Alfonso de Valdés

Alfonso de Valdés (* around 1490 in Cuenca in Castile ; † October 3, 1532 in Vienna ) was a Spanish humanist and politician .

Life

Valdés was the twin brother of the theologian and humanist Juan de Valdés . In 1520 he accompanied Charles V to his coronation as emperor in Aachen . From 1522 Valdés was secretary to the imperial chancellor Mercurino Gattinara , who had a special position of trust with Emperor Charles V and was one of the most influential advisers on both political and theological issues. He drew up a report on the Battle of Pavia (1525) and was probably one of the co-authors of the imperial letters of 1526/27 to Pope Clement VII and the College of Cardinals, which demanded the establishment of a general council. In the conquest of Rome in 1527 he saw a criminal judgment for the sins of the papal city (Dialogue "Lactantius", printed in 1529). Valdés was enthusiastic about the ideas of Erasmus from Rotterdam . In 1529 he accompanied the emperor to Italy , Germany and the Netherlands and in 1530 attempted at the Augsburg Reichstag to mediate as an influential negotiator between the emperor and Philipp Melanchthon (the Protestant negotiator ). However, his efforts were unsuccessful.

Works

  • Valdés, Alfonso de: "Dialogo de Mercurio y Caron: en que allende de muchas cosus graciosas ... en la guerra des del añs de 1521 hasta los desafios de los Reyes de Francia [e] Ynglaterra hechos al Emperador en el año de 1528 "[Ed. pr.] [Sl], [1529]
  • Valdés, Alfonso de: "Discours about Kayser Carolen the Fifth with the khönig from France Francisco Valesio held battle in front of Pavien, and what else happens after the prison and the execution of King Francisci: Divided into two books: Both of these stories are told one, as Charon ... otherwise partly Mercurius ... together .... " Amberg 1609.

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SURNAME Valdés, Alfonso de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish humanist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuenca
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1532
Place of death Vienna