AVILA, Gil Gonzalez d', a Spanish biographer and antiquary, born at Avila about the year 1577, died in his native city in 1658. He was made historiographer of Castile in 1612; in 1641 he was made, in addition, historiographer of the Indies. Among his numerous works, the most valuable are his Teatro de las Grandezas de Madrid (Madrid, 1623, fol.), and his Teatro Eclesiastico, descriptive of the metropolitan churches and cathedrals of Castile, with lives of the prelates. (Madrid, 1645-53, 4 vols. 4to.)