Alfonso Clemente de Arostegui y Cañavate (
Villanueva de la Jara
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, 5 March 1698 -
Madrid, 2 October 1774) was a
Spanish bishop, writer, lawyer and diplomat.
He studied at the
University of Salamanca and at the
University of Alcalá de Henares. He worked for the Departments of ''
Instituta'' and Decrees at the
University Complutense
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; in
Zaragoza's mayor's office; in
Roman Rota; as an interim minister plenipotentiary of Spain in Rome; as an ambassador in
Rome; at the
Council of Castile; in the
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando; as a royal commissioner of the
Holy Crusade; in the Council of State; and as a member of the
House of Castile.
He bequeathed all his books to the College of
Seminario de San Julián in
Cuenca, also leaving two trusts to support librarians and their corresponding libraries, and two student scholarships.
[Miguel Jiménez Monteserín, ''Hacia Cervantes: de los libros al hombre''. Univ de Castilla La Mancha, 2005, p. iv y ss. y Didier Ozanam, ''Les diplomates espagnols du XVIIIe siècle: introduction et répertoire biographique 700-1808', Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 1998, p. 232.]
Works
*''Concordia patoralis super iure diocesano inter episcopos et praelatos inferiores'', Alcalá de Henares, 1734.
*''De historia ecclesiae hispaniensis excolenda exhortatio ad hispanos'' Roma, 1747.
*''Historia de la ciudad de Osma y de la ereccion de su obispado, escrita en latin por D. Alfonso Clemente de Arostegui'', manuscript.
Bibliography
*Miguel Jiménez Monteserín, ''Hacia Cervantes: de los libros al hombre''. Univ de Castilla La Mancha, 2005.
*Didier Ozanam, ''Les diplomates espagnols du XVIIIe siècle: introduction et répertoire biographique
700-1808', Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 1998.
*José de Rezabal y Ugarte, ''Biblioteca de los escritores que han sido individuos de los seis colegios mayores: de San Ildefonso de la Universidad de Alcalá, de Santa Cruz de la de Valladolid, de San Bartolomé, de Cuenca, San Salvador de Oviedo, y del Arzobispado de la de Salamanca, con varios indices...'' Madrid: Impr. de Sancha, 1805, p. 74 y ss.
Spanish male writers
18th-century Spanish lawyers
18th-century Latin-language writers
1698 births
1774 deaths
University of Salamanca alumni
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