DE LA FORMACIÓN MORAL DEL PRÍNCIPE

Une langue est un discours. La langue du jeu de cartes et, plus encore, le jeu de cartes comme discours. En Espagne, parce que c'est un pays où la pratique du jeu semble avoir engendrer, plus qu'ailleurs, un discours spécifique qui affleure de façon quasiment généralisée - et parfois inattendue - dans la métaphore. Et du XVIe au XVIIe siècle, parce que c'est pendant cette période que la spécificité de ce discours et l'usage de la métaphore cartière sont le plus remarquables. Cinq études et une introduction. Une longue introduction pour rapporter et expliquer le légendaire des...

A study of letter-writing in Renaissance Spain. The subject of this book is the art of letter-writing in the Renaissance period, which, particularly in the case of Spain, has been unjustly neglected. The first part examines two major sixteenth-century treatises on letter-writing, Erasmus's Opus de conscribendis epistolis (1522) and Juan Luis Vives's De conscribendis epistolis(1536), concluding that the two were composed independently, rather than one being derived from the other. The author goes on to look at two important collections of letters, Fray Antonio de Guevara's Epístolas...

Mientras que la literatura castellana se expande y triunfa, las letras gallegas y catalans viven una situación muy diferente en esta época. Mariela de la Torre, Josep Solervicens, Vicent Josep Escartí, Pedro Álvarez de Miranda, Joaquim Martí Mestre, Rosa Navarro, Eulàlia Duran, Guillermo Serés, Rolf Eberenz y Carlos Gilly ofrecen novedades y motivos de reflexión sobre una época compleja, conflictiva y en parte desatendida hasta la actualidad.

This book is written in Spanish. This book is a study of the intellectual and cultural atmosphere surrounding the Spanish author don Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645) during his stay at the Courts of Palermo and Naples (1613-1619) in the service of the Viceroy Duke of Osuna. Attention is paid particularly to his early knowledge of the works of the poet Marino, his role as protector of the Arts, and as intercessor on behalf of the philosopher Campanella. The second part of the book offers a detailed analysis of the author's writings during his Italian and post-Italian years as a result of his...