Louis, archbishop of Arles, and cardinal of St Cecilia, was born in 1390, and died in 1452. He presided, along with Cardinal Julian, in the council of Basil, which deposed Eugenius IV., and elected the antipope Felix V. He is much commended by Anæas Sylvius, as a man extremely well formed for presiding in such assemblies,—firm and vigorous, illustrious by his virtue, learned, and of an admirable memory in recapitulating all that the orators and disputants had said. At the request of the canons and Celestine monks of Avignon, and the solicitation of the cardinal of Clermont, legate a latere of Clement VII., he was beatified by the pope in the year 1527.

Mateo, a remarkable Spanish writer, born at Sevilla, about the middle of the sixteenth century; best known to us by his racy and amusing Adventures of Guzman Alfarache, published in 1599; a work highly esteemed for the purity and elegance of its Castilian style, though the delineations are often coarse and indelicate. This and several succeeding works of the same kind, under the feigned adventures of rogues and vagabonds, cover a sly satire on the corruption of Spanish manners in the time of Philip II. It was from this, and the novel of Espinol, entitled The Life of Squire Marcos Otregon, that Le Sage borrowed many of the characters and adventures in his admirable Gil Blas. Aleman also wrote a Life of St Antonio de Padona; and having visited Mexico, he there published an Ortografia Castellana in 1609, which has obtained some reputation. He died in the reign of Philip III.