biography
pronunciation:
[seemankas]
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| male
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| lived:
| (fl.1525–75)
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| biography:
| Autobiographer, born in Córdoba, S Spain. After studying in Valladolid and Salamanca, he was appointed to the Inquisition and wrote De catholicis institutionibus (1552), in fact little more than an analysis of heresy and its forms. He became Bishop of Zamora and conducted against other churchmen various undignified campaigns of vilification, including his celebrated La vida y cosas notables del senor obispo de Zamora Don Diego de Simancas. This manuscript in the Biblioteca Colombina, copied in 1685, was ‘dictado por la soberbia’, in the words of M Serrano y Sanz, for it contains a protracted attack on Archbishop Carranza and lacks all sign of Christian humility. |
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