"This book offers the first comprehensive study of the reception of the classical tradition in medieval Catalan letters, a multilingual process involving not only Latin and Catalan, but also neighbouring vernaculars like Aragonese, Castilian, French, and Italian. The authors survey the development of classical literacy from the twelfth-century Aragonese royal courts until the arrival of the printing press and the dissemination of Italian ..."
"With the advent of the printing press throughout Europe in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the key Latin texts of Italian humanism began to be published outside Italy, most of them by a small group of printers who, in most cases, worked in close collaboration with lecturers and teachers. This study provides the first comprehensive account of the dissemination of this important literary corpus in Spain, France, the Low Countri ..."
"The papers in this volume study the early influence of Petrarch in France and in the Crown of Aragon. They focus, in particular, on Bernat Metge (c. 1348-1413), a prominent member of the Aragonese Royal Chancery, who produced a Catalan adaptation of Petrarch's Griseldis (from Seniles, XVII, 3-4) around 1388, making a Latin work of Petrarch available for the first time in the Iberian Peninsula. Moreover, Metge's fragmentary Apology(1395? ..."
"Even though humanism derived its literary, moral and educational predilections from ancient Greek and Roman models, it was never an inherently secular movement and it soon turned to religious questions. Humanists were of course brought up with Christian beliefs, regarded the Bible as a fundamental text, and many of them were members of the clergy, either regular or secular. While their importance as religious sources was undiminished, b ..."
"Nowhere is this truer than in the case of Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74),
under whose guidance humanism took an irreversibly Christian direction.
Charles G. Nauert has singled out Petrarch's historical importance, “not only for
his efforts to rediscover lost works [from Antiquity], but also for his efforts to
resolve some of the inner conflicts that Christian classicists had always faced”.1
Indeed, Petrarch was able to blen ..."
"See Fernando Lázaro Carreter, “Imitación compuesta y diseño retórico en la oda
a Juan Grial”, Anuario de estudios filológicos, ... See Antonio Ramajo Caño, “El
carácter proemial de la Oda primera de fray Luis (y un excurso sobre la Priamel
en la poesía de ... See Julio Alonso Asenjo, “Optimates laetificare: la Egloga de
nativitate Christi de Joan Baptista Anyés o Agnesio”, ... For the Thalichristia,
which was reprinted three years ..."
"Aunque Empédocles ha jugado un inmenso papel en el desarrollo de la cultura occidental, muy poco es lo que se sabe sobre este filósofo que vivió en Sicilia durante el siglo V a.C. Basándose en un material nunca examinado antes, éste es el primer estudio que sitúa los fragmentos filosóficos de Empédocles dentro del contexto original de la filosofía de su época, como forma de vida, como misterio religioso y como magia. Peter Kingsley prue ..."
" La fabula de Amor y Psique es uno de los mitos mas bellos y significativos de toda la Antiguedad clasica y, a la vez, uno de los que mayor influencia ha ejercido sobre la literatura y las artes. Tragica y obscena, mistica y burlona, la novela de Apuleyo presenta todas las caracteristicas de la literatura latina imperial, sin olvidar la esencia espiritual alejandrina de la que tambien es heredera. «Es una buena ocasion para releer el in ..."
"Since 1971, the International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies has been organised every three years in various cities in Europe and North America. In August 2009, Uppsala in Sweden was the venue of the fourteenth Neo-Latin conference, held by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. The proceedings of the Uppsala conference have been collected in this volume under the motto "Litteras et artes nobis traditas excolere - Receptio ..."
"La fabula de Eros y Psique es uno de los mitos mas bellos y significativos de toda la antigüedad clasica, y, a la vez, uno de los que mayor influencia ha ejercido sobre la literatura y las artes, no solo durante la epoca grecolatina sino a lo largo de la Edad Media y el Renacimiento hasta el siglo XVIII. Una buena prueba de que su hechizo aun no ha decaido es que, a mediados del siglo pasado, el escritor ingles C. S. Lewis escribiera ta ..."
"Aunque Empédocles ha jugado un inmenso papel en el desarrollo de la cultura occidental, muy poco es lo que se sabe sobre este filósofo que vivió en Sicilia durante el siglo V a.C. Ba sán - dose en un material nunca examinado antes, éste es el primer estudio que sitúa los fragmentos filosóficos de Em - pédocles dentro del contexto original de la filosofía de su época, como forma de vida, como misterio religioso y como magia. Pe ter Kings ..."