Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VI, 1951 History & biography Historians, various biographies

Goes, Damiano di

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Also known as: Damiao de Gois; Italian: Damiano de Goes; Portuguese: Damião de Góis

GOES, DAMIANO di. - Portuguese historian, b. at Alenquer in 1502, d. there in 1574. He held diplomatic posts at nearly all the European courts, and traveled a great deal, coming into contact with or forming friendships with numerous personalities of the time, Erasmus, Sadoleto, Luther, Melanchthon.

In 1546 he was appointed by King John III chief archivist of Torre do Tombo, and he devoted himself to historiographical research, composing a Cronica do principe dom João, and his masterpiece Cronica do rei dom Manuel. A refined and objective writer of Erasmian tendencies, he conceives of history as the critical study of facts and of historical sources. Although he did not embrace their ideas, he cultivated relations with the German innovators, and for this he had conflicts with and condemnations from the Inquisition.

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BIBL.: M. Barbosa, Bibliotheca Lusitana, I, Lisbon 1741, pp. 615-21; J. F. da Silva, Diccionario bibliographico portuguez, II, ibid. 1839-70, pp. 123-25; IX, pp. 102-104.

Piero Sannazzaro

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), col. 893.

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Sannazzaro, Piero. “Goes, damiano di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 893. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/goes-damiano-di.

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Sannazzaro, Piero. “Goes, damiano di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 893. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/goes-damiano-di.

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  author    = {Sannazzaro, Piero},
  title     = {Goes, damiano di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VI},
  pages     = {893},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/goes-damiano-di}
}

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