VIDAURRE, Manuel Lorenzo de (ve-dahoor'-ray), Peruvian statesman, born in Lima in 1773; died there, 9 March, 1841. He was graduated in law at the University of San Marcos, and became auditor of the Royal audiencia of Cuzco in 1810, but was transferred in 1820 to the audiencia of Puerto Principe in Cuba, and soon afterward sent, to Spain, as he began to write in favor of South American independence. Being persecuted for his liberal ideas, he escaped to the United States in 1822, and on his return to Peru was appointed by Simon Bolivar, in April, 1824, first president of the superior court of Trujillo, and in 1825 promoted president of the supreme court of justice of the republic. He was appointed minister plenipotentiary of Peru for the general American assembly of Panama in 1S25, and several times was minister of foreign relations. In 1888 he was appointed by President Orbegozo minister to Ecuador to negotiate her neutrality in the struggle of the Peru-Bolivian federation against Chili and the plots of Agustin Gamarra, and on the accession of the latter, in 1839, was deprived of his post in the supreme court. He was the author of the Peruvian civil and penal codes and of " Plan de Perte, dedicado al Libertador Simon Bolivar" (Paris, 1822);" Cartas Americanas, politicas y morales, que contienen muchas reflexiones sobre la guerra civil de las Americas" (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1S23) ; and " Efectos de las facciones en los Gobiernos" (Lima, 1828).