GUEVARA, ANTONIO DE (c. Spanish chronicler and moralist. He held successively the offices of court preacher, court historiographer, bishop of Guadix and bishop of Mondedo. His earliest work, entitled Libro llamado Relox de Principes, en el qual va encorporado el muy f amoso libro de Marco Aurelio (1529) is a didactic novel, after the manner of Xenophon's Cyropaedia. It was often reprinted in Spanish ; and before the close of the century had also been translated into Latin, Italian, French and English, one English translation being by J. Bourchier (1546) and another by T. North. It is difficult now to account for its extraordinary popularity, its thought being neither just nor profound, while its style is stiff and affected. It gave rise to a literary controversy, however, of great bitterness and violence, the author having ventured without warrant to claim for it an historical character, appealing to an imaginary "manu script" in Florence. Other works of Guevara are the Decada de Cesares ; the Epistolas f amiliares , sometimes called "The Golden Letters," and the Libro de los inventores del arte de marear