biography
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Núñez de Castro, Alonso
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pronunciation:
[noonyeth thay
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| male
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| lived:
| (1625–95)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Madrid, Spain. His father Juan was a physician to Felipe IV, who appointed him royal chronicler when he graduated from Salamanca University. Núñez de Castro continued the history by Saavedra Fajardo entitled Corona gótica, castellana y austríaca from AD716 to the reign of Enrique II, his expanded version being published in Madrid in 1670. His other works include Espejo christalino de armas para generales valerosos, de desengaños para christianos príncipes (1648); Séneca impugnado de Séneca en questiones políticas y morales (1651); Vida de las fundadoras del Monasterio del Caballero de Gracia (1658); a work of propaganda called Sólo Madrid es Corte (1658) to support the city's claim to capital status, which it had enjoyed effectively only since 1650; Historia ecclesiástica y seglar de la ciudad de Guadalaxara (1658); and Ley viva de príncipes perfectos (1673), his second contribution to the popular genre de regimine principum. His Vida de San Fernando appeared in the Colección Cisneros in 1943. His style is pedestrian, but he made scrupulous use of a wider range of primary sources than was customary at the time. |
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