Mendoza

DIEGO HURTADO, (men-do'thah.) a Spanish soldier, historian, and statesman, B. in Granada, 1503, became, in 1538, Charles V.'s amba ador to Venice, and afterward amba ador to Rome and governor of Siena. After the acce ion of Philip II., M. fell into disgrace at court, and retired into private life, in which he devoted himself to literary pursuits. He is author of an admirable Spanish cla ic, a History of the Wars against the Moors, and of the celebrated romance of the Cervantes school, Lazarillo de Tormes, D. 1575. Mendoza, a S.W. p. of the Argentine Confederation, situate on the Chilian border, bet. S. Lat. 32°-34° 30′, W. Lon. 66°-68°; area, 54,000 sq. m. Pop. 65,413. — A city, C. of above p., near the foothills of the Paramillo range, 55 m. E.S.E. of the volcano of Aconcagua. It is a prosperous place, with an active trade. Pop. 8,124. [s. 591]