AZEGLIO, Taparelli Cesare, Marquis d', a councillor of Victor Emmanuel, king of Sardinia, born at Turin, 1763, died 1830. He served in the army against the French in 1792, was made prisoner, and detained in France till 1796. In 1798 he emigrated with the court of Turin, and in 1814 was appointed ambassador extraordinary to Rome. In 1822 he founded a journal called "L'Amico d'ltalia," which continued till 1829.
AZEMAR, François Bazile, a French general, born at Cabannes, 1766, died 1813. He served with the army of the North, and in Holland. In 1798 he was made prisoner in Italy, and on his return, became chef de bataillon. He was killed at the battle of Gros Drebnitz, and his name is inscribed on the bronze tablets of Versailles.
AZEVEDO, Alonso d', a Spanish poet, who published at Rome in 1615, a poem entitled "Creacion del Mundo." It is divided into seven days, and is written in octave rhyme.
AZEVEDO, Alonso d', a Spanish lawyer, was born at Placentia in the first half of the sixteenth century, and died 23rd July, 1598. There is in the British Museum a collection by Azevedo of the laws enacted by Philip II., from 1552 to 1564. It was published at Salamanca in 1565, under the title of "Repertorio de Todas las Pragmaticas y Capitulos de Cortes," &c. He also, according to Antonio, was sole editor of the collection of "Royal Constitutions," published at Salamanca in six vols. folio, in 1583-98, under the title of "Nueva Recopilacion."
AZEVEDO, Angela d', a female dramatic author, who lived in the first half of the seventeenth century. She was a Portuguese by birth, but her works are written in Spanish.
AZEVEDO, Dom Jerome, viceroy of the Indies, was born in the sixteenth century, and died about 1618. His administration commenced 15th December, 1612, and terminated 16th November, 1617. He devoted much attention to geography, and set on foot an exploration of the island of Madagascar.
AZEVEDO, Felix A´lvares, a Spanish general, was born at Otero, in the province of Leon, and died 9th March, 1808. He held for some time the office of rector of the college of St. Pelago at Salamanca, but afterwards went to Madrid, became an advocate, was subsequently enrolled among the royal guards, and was sent by that body to Leon to raise troops for the War of Independence. Being appointed to a command in the constitutional army, he signalized himself in various engagements with the royalist forces; and fell at the village of Padornello.—G. M.
AZEVEDO, Francisco d', a Portuguese poet, was born at Lisbon in the beginning of the seventeenth century, and died 4th April, 1680. He left, in manuscript, a poem entitled "Epigrammatum Liber Unus."
AZEVEDO, Igna´zio d', a Portuguese jesuit, was born at Oporto in 1527, and died 15th July, 1570. He was sent on a mission to Brazil, but the vessel in which he sailed was attacked and captured off the island of Palma, by Jacques Sourie, vice-admiral of the queen of Navarre, when Azevedo, and his brethren of the order who accompanied him, were massacred, and their bodies thrown into the sea.
AZEVEDO, Joao, a Portuguese monk, was born at Santarem, 27th January, 1665, and died at Lisbon, 16th June, 1746. He devoted much of his time to the study of theology, and entered into the order of the eremites of St. Augustine. His published works mentioned by Machado are—"Tribunal Theologicum et Juridicum contra Subdolos Confessarios in Sacramento Pœnitentiæ ad Venerem Sollicitantes;" "Tribunal de Desenganos Dividido em 24 Desenganos Deliberaçoes Theologicas Escriturarias Doutrinæs, Politicas e Christanas."—G. M.
AZEVEDO, Joao, a Portuguese canon, was born at Lisbon about the year 1625, and died 19th November, 1697. He held the office of judge-depute of the Inquisition, first in the bishopric of Coimbra, and afterwards in Lisbon. He was subsequently made a member of the king's council, and of the council-general of the Inquisition.
AZEVEDO, Luiz Antonio d', a Portuguese grammarian, was a native of Lisbon, and, in 1815, held the office of regius professor of grammar and the Latin language in that city.
AZEVEDO, Luiza d', a poetess, whose works obtained some celebrity in the seventeenth century. She was born at Villa de Paredes in 1635, and died in 1679.
AZEVEDO, Luiz d', a Portuguese jesuit and missionary, was born at Chaves, on the frontier of Gallicia, in 1573, and died 22nd February, 1634. He was admitted into the order at sixteen years of age, and was sent to Goa to finish his studies. In 1604 he was sent to Abyssinia, where he established a school for children. He is said to have been much beloved for his active humanity. He attained a perfect acquaintance with the different dialects of Abyssinia, particularly the Amharic, into which he translated the books of the New Testament. He wrote also a catechism In the same dialect, and a grammar of that dialect in Latin, with several other works, mentioned by Southwell, in his "Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu."
AZEVEDO, Manuel Soares d', a jurisconsult, and member of the Portuguese Academy of History, lived in the first half of the eighteenth century. He wrote a work entitled "Dissertatio Historica-juridica de Potestate Judæorum in Mancipia."
AZEVEDO, Pedro, a Spanish physician, lived in the first half of the eighteenth century. He graduated at Paris, and afterwards taught in the medical schools for many years. He wrote a number of works, which, however, have never appeared in a collected edition. Among these are two discourses, one entitled "Sur l'Utilite des Experimentations dans la Pratique," and the other, "An in Inflammationibus Kermes Minerale."—G. M.
AZEVEDO, Pedro, was born in the Canary islands, and was originally destined for the church. He, however, turned his attention to medicine, and wrote a work on the plague, which was published at Saragossa in 1589, under the title "Remedios contra Pestilencia," 8vo. This work was written also in Portuguese by the same author, but was not printed.—G. M.
AZEVEDO, Sylvester, a Portuguese friar of the order of Dominicans, died in 1587. He was sent from Malacca on a mission to Camboia, and composed, in the language of that country, a treatise on the mysteries of the Christian faith.
AZEVEDO-COUTINHO, a Portuguese bishop, was born in Brazil, 8th September, 1742, and died 12th September, 1821. In 1791 he published a treatise entitled "Ensaio Economico Sobre o Commercio de Portugal e Suas Colonias." In 1794 he was appointed bishop of Pernambuco, and published at London a work which was intended as an answer to a motion in the British parliament for the abolition of slavery. It was entitled "Analyse sur la justice du commerce du rachat des esclaves de la cóte d'Afrique." He was afterwards chosen to represent the capital of Brazil in the Cortes of Portugal.—G. M.
AZEVEDO-COUTINHO, Marcos, a Brazilian traveller, was born in the sixteenth century, and died in the seventeenth. He was an intrepid explorer of the solitudes of Brazil; and, in 1596, is said to have discovered the famous emerald mine, during an expedition known under the name of "Jornada das Esmeraldas."
AZEVEDO-COUTINHO Y BERNAL, Joseph-Felix-Antoine François d', a Belgian genealogist, was born at Mechlin, 22nd April, 1717, and died about 1780. He held the rank of canon in his native town, and compiled a great number of genealogical tables, three of which, illustrative of the genealogy of the family of Corten, are now in the library of the British Museum.
AZEVEDO-DA-CUNHA, Felix d', a Portuguese naval officer, who acquired some reputation as a poet in the beginning of the eighteenth century. He published at Lisbon in 1706, "Patrocinio empenhado pelos clamores de hum prezo dirigido ao senhor Luiz-Cezar de Menezes, governador o capitao general do Estado do Brasil."
AZEVEDO-MORATO, Manoel d', a Portuguese poet of the eighteenth century, was born at Coimbra. He published, in 1716, a little poem entitled "Saudades de dona Ignez de Castro."
AZEVEDO-TOJAL, Pedro d', a Portuguese lawyer and poet, who lived in the first half of the eighteenth century. In 1716, he published at Lisbon a heroic poem in twelve cantos, entitled "Carlos reduzido, Inglaterra illustrada."
AZEVEDO-Y-ZUNIGA, Caspar d', fifth count of Monterey, viceroy of Mexico, and afterwards of Peru. He equipped a fleet for the discovery of the great southern continent; and Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, to whom the command of the expedition was intrusted, is said to have discovered some islands about the 28th degree of south latitude. The count died on the 16th March, 1616.
AZIM-ED-DAULAH-BEHADOUR, the last titular nabob of the Carnatic, born 1770, and died 13th August, 1819.
AZIN, ___ d', a French engineer, lived about the commencement of the eighteenth century. He wrote a work entitled "Nouveau systeme sur la maniere de defendre les places par le moyen des contremines."
