Spanish humanism on the verge of the picaresque : Juan Maldonado's Ludus Chartarum, Pastor Bonus, and Bacchanalia /
The 16th-century humanist Juan Maldonado in his Latin essays foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Like Erasmus, with whom he corresponded, Maldonado advocated the use of Latin in a wide-range of activities. Maldonado's Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satir...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Latin English |
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Leuven :
Leuven University Press,
2009
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| Series: | Supplementa humanistica Lovaniensia ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The 16th-century humanist Juan Maldonado in his Latin essays foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Like Erasmus, with whom he corresponded, Maldonado advocated the use of Latin in a wide-range of activities. Maldonado's Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satirical style the abuses of the churchmen in his diocese. His ludus chartarum is framed as a colloquium similar to Vives' on the subject, entertaining while teaching a Latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia, written for student actors, is a spirited play pitting the forces of Lent against those. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-291). |
| ISBN: | 9789461660534 9461660537 |
| ISSN: | 0775-1117 ; |
| Language: | Text in Latin with translations and introduction in English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
