Diplomat, courtier, and heretic, Juan de Vald�s (c.1500-1541) was one of the most famous humanist writers in Renaissance Spain. In this biography, Daniel A. Crews paints a lively portrait of a complex and fascinating figure by focusing on Vald�s's service as an imperial courtier and how his employments in Italy - after brushes with the Spanish Inquisition - influenced both Spanish diplomacy and his own religious thought. Twilight of the Renaissance focuses on Vald�s's political activities in Charles V's Italian alliance system and negotiations with the papacy, while painting a lively portrait of an intriguing and complex Renaissance figure.

Crews examines how Vald�s, who was praised by two popes and, the emperor, was also branded a heretic almost immediately after his death. By considering Vald�s's spirituality, as well as egotism, this incisive work reveals how the libertine atmosphere of the late Renaissance challenges the saintly Socratic image Vald�s fashioned for himself in his writings.

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Daniel A. Crews is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Central Missouri.

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