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Bernat Metge, moralist: the degraded woman, exponent of the hatred and human suffering in his time

Júlia BUTINYÀ

Original title: Bernat Metge, moralista: la dona degradada, exponent de l’odi i del mal humà en el seu temps

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Keywords: Bernat Metge, Catalan Literature, Humanism, Middle Ages, Moral.

Metge offers a new vision of women and their entity, which shifts the medieval as a result of contempt and, at the same time, is his prototypes of hatred. To this end, he portrays the most disgusting ad degrades version, which comes from the Corbaccio, followed by an exquisite gallery of women, inspired by classics. In fact, it is a moral reform, which pictured with the rejection of the misogyny and of the petrarquesque ethics towards love, which was the deformation of the agustinian and confirmed the traditional morality.

Bioethics, Humanism, and Post-Humanism in XXI Century: In Search for a New Being?

Leo PESSINI

Original title: Bioética, Humanismo e Pós-Humanismo no Século XXI: Em Busca de um Novo Ser?

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Keywords: Bioethics, Humanism, Illuminism, Post-Humanism, Transhumanism.

This paper describes the historical and ideological origins of Transhumanism, heir to the Illuminist Ideology. Within a dialectical analysis, positive and negative aspects of Transhumanism are approached, engaging the historical experience within ethical, philosophical, and cultural fields of study within the Western societies.

Erasmus editor of Saint Jerome: the Opera omnia (1516)

Inmaculada DELGADO JARA

Original title: Erasmo editor de san Jerónimo: las Opera omnia (1516)

Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)  

Keywords: Erasmus, Fathers of the Church, Humanism, Saint Jerome.

The biblical and patristic project of Erasmus began in 1516, after a long maturation period of at least 15 years (from 1500 to 1516), with the publication in that annus mi-rabilis of the Novum Instrumentum and the Opera omnia of Saint Jerome –two milestones in his biblical and patristic project that will continue for twenty years with the edition of more than a dozen Fathers of the Church, both Greek and Latin–. At this time he had already discovered that the Sacred Scripture and the Fathers of the Church (espe-cially Saint Augustine, Chrysostom, Basil, Origen and Saint Jerome) could renew what he understood by theology: he does not want a scotist, nominalist, thomisttheology, that is, that of the recentiores, but a true theology, the vetus theologia or later the bibli-cal philosophia Christi, centered on the gospels and apostolic letters. But to reach this, we not only have the texts of the Scripture, but also the Fathers of the Church –and among them the greatest Latin Father, Jerome–, from which to take in the purest mes-sage of the Scripture, a redditio ad fontes, which he will defend throughout his life as the foundation of the theological renewal that he perceived as profoundly necessary in his time. The study deals with his herculean nine-volume edition of Saint Jerome’s Opera omnia –the first and most important of his many editions of the Fathers of the Church–. Because we anticipate that, with Erasmus, “the first patrology” was born. Its great editorial and translating task will facilitate the dissemination of patristic thought that will influence studies on New Testament philology as well as the development of dogmatic theology and Christian piety itself.

Erasmus, Biographer of Jerome: Hieronymi Stridonensis Vita (1516)

Victoriano PASTOR JULIÁN

Original title: Erasmo, biógrafo de san Jerónimo: Hieronymi Stridonensis Vita (1516)

Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)  

Keywords: Biography, Erasmus, Humanism, Saint Jerome, Theology.

The life of Jerome of Stridon was written by Erasmus as an introduction to the edition of his Opera Omnia (1516). He developed it mainly from Jerome’s own correspondence, the first four volumes consisting of its edition. Erasmus read and imitated Jerome’s work, due to his piety and knowledge since his youth. This is the reason why the Vita Hieronymi will develop around two axes: Jerome according to Jerome and Jerome according to Erasmus. Thus, he conceives life as a forensic speech in which he defends Jerome’s cause and, at the same time, that of Humanism and of the vera theologia, of which he will be a defender and advocate. Thereby, Jerome’s biography turns, so to speak, into an apologia pro vita sua for Erasmus. In this work, we have translated –for the first time in Spanish language– more than a third of its 1565 lines, keeping the Latin text at the bottom of the page. At the same time, we have studied both Jerome’s and Erasmus’ context, focusing especially on the almost total complicity of both theologians and humanists.

Figures of Speech in Garcia de Resende’s (1470-1536) Cancioneiro Geral

Geraldo Augusto FERNANDES

Original title: As figuras de linguagem no Cancioneiro Geral de Garcia de Resende (1470-1536)

Published in Returning to Eden

Keywords: Figurae, Garcia de Resende’s Cancioneiro Geral, Humanism, Poems of mixed forms, Rhetoric.

The studies of Rhetoric and the use of its resources began to emerge during Humanism in Portugal. These were made or found in the libraries of monarchs and princes, as well as in monasteries. But Rhetoric also becomes a discipline that will be key for the nation to commune with humanistic precepts which is spreading throughout Europe with the aim of forming the human person, physically, intellectually, and morally. This advent, which took place from the fifteenth century onwards, also focuses on the literature developed in the palace evenings. In this study, the use of rhetorical devices shows how it interferes in poetics, especially the one developed in Garcia de Resende’s Cancioneiro Geral, from which I extracted the many examples of these embellishing means (of oratory and poetics, as Quintiliano says), all of which are apparent in the poems of mixed forms. What I propose is to present the examples taken from the Resende’s songbook, listing the resources, and showing them in the poems of the compilation. Quintilian and the anonymous of the Rhetorica ad Herennium will be collated with the studies of Juan Casas Rigall, Heinrich Lausberg, Baltasar Gracián, Nair Nazaré Castro Soares, Maria Isabel Moran Cabanas, Antonio de Nebrija, among others.

Literature as an Instrument of Legal Defense

María DE HOCES LOMBA

Original title: La Literatura como instrumento de defensa jurídica

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Keywords: Apology, Audience, Classicism, Defense, Humanism, Law, Legal, Literature, Oratory, Persuasion, Petition, Rhetoric.

Based on prestigious literary works and the academic training and personal experiences of its authors, it is possible to establish a real and useful relationship between Law and Literature, so the former is capable of influencing Literature beyond mere fiction. These works, which we would call literary defenses would be able to achieve full effects in the real world, directly affecting the lives of their creators, thus fulfilling the intention with which they were written. They could be considered a subgenre on their own, because this insertion of Law in Literature originates a literary work in depth and form, being capable, at the same time, of displaying effects like a legal document.

Ramon Llull’s proposals to the Council of Vienne (1311-1312). A synthesis of Christian prehumanism

Manuel ORTUÑO ARREGUI

Original title: Las propuestas de Ramon Llull al Concilio de Vienne (1311-1312). Una síntesis del prehumanismo Cristiano

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Keywords: Christian, Council Vienne, Humanism, Ramon Llull.

The Council of Vienne (1311-12) proposed to make proposals around the crusade. In this context, Ramon Llull made a series of proposals before his convocation, which were synthesized in the memorial Petitio in concilio generali [sc. Vienne] ad acquirendam terram sanctam (1311). They can be summarized in three thematic nuclei: the foundation of chairs for the teaching of oriental languages; the reform of the military orders to conquer the Holy Land, and, finally, the defense of the nature of the human person against Averroism that he considered an error. Of all these proposals, he succeeded in achieving the first and thus endowed European universities with the study of oriental languages for the later missionary enterprise. Without a doubt, a fundamental element in the synthesis of prehumanist thought that he promulgated until his last days of life as an influential man in the thought of the western Mediterranean and Europe.

Structuring the tradition in the old Catalan Literatures: from Ramon Llull (1232-1316) to Bernat Metge (1340-1413)

Júlia BUTINYÀ

Original title: Estructurant la tradició en les lletres catalanes antigues: de Ramon Llull (1232-1316) a Bernat Metge (1340-1413)

Published in The World of Tradition

Keywords: Bernat Metge, Crown of Aragon, Humanism, Middle Ages, Ramon Llull.

To contribute to structuring the tradition in the Catalan letters of the Middle Ages, links are exposed that root the thought of the great humanist, Bernat Metge, in the great medieval philosopher, Ramon Llull. This link allows us to observe the continuity that, in one way or another and with greater or lesser intensity – and often with leaps of eras-, can be seen in the different literatures. According to the present proposal of textual concomitants, in the Crown of Aragon and through both authors, the connection between tradition and modernity occurs with high intensity in the 14th century itself, right at the beginning of the change in mentality and sensibility.

Ten little things that magnify the Catalan Griselda

Júlia BUTINYÀ

Original title: Deu petiteses que magnifiquen la Griselda catalana

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Keywords: Bernat Metge, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Griselda, Humanism.

Ten little things that magnify the Catalan Griselda: The stories of Griselda by the Italian authors, Boccaccio and Petrarca, bear witness to a profound discussion, as revealed by the epistolary of the Seniles. Bernat Metge, sensitive to the new current, enters into this controversy with his Catalan version and through some letters. His support for Boccaccio and the disjunction towards the mentor, which were already known, we analyze here from ten corners of observation, which explain the sign of the Humanisme in its origins, and can still give reason for its course.

The Holy Empire and the Papacy in late medieval thought: some ideas about the precedence in the Italian and Spanish chronicles of the 14th and 15th centuries

Josué VILLA PRIETO

Original title: El Sacro Imperio y el Papado en el pensamiento bajomedieval: algunas ideas sobre la precedencia en las crónicas italianas y españolas de los siglos XIV y XV

Published in Manifestations of the Ancient and Medieval World

Keywords: Cultural History, Empire, History of ideas, Humanism, Papacy, Political thought.

This study analyses the conception of the Holy Roman Empire in the Italian and Spanish chronicles of the Late Middle Ages: origins, authority and tensions with the Papacy for a preeminent position within universal power. After the scholasticism historiographical disputes (XIIth-XIIIth centuries), humanists write new interpretations of the genesis of the Holy Roman Empire wondering about the desappearance (or not) of the Roman imperial potestas and if it continues in Byzantium or the Papacy, and where the Charlemagne's authority comes from. The comparison of the Italian and Spanish sources allows to note different political intentions in a context of mutual cultural influence.

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