Libro De Los Honnestos Amores De Peregrino Y Ginebra

Author : Govert Westerveld
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ISBN 13 : 9781792039461
Total Pages : 225 pages
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Download or read book Doubt about the Authorship of the Work Asno de Oro Published in Seville Around 1513 written by Govert Westerveld and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Hellenist, unknown to many scholars, does not appear on Wikipedia's list of 18 Spanish Hellenists in the XVI century. It is clear that up to now historians and researchers believed what other scholars and historians had said about him and further research was therefore not necessary. Whatever might have been the reason for the silence in the literature about him, one thing is clear: our unknown Hellenist was an expert in languages, because he knew Valencian, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.He liked to speak in his literature about the university of Salamanca and Antonio de Nebrija, and maybe this was due to the fact that he started there working as a translator. He was in charge of translating Historia de duobus amantibus (1444) by Eneas Silvio Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) in order to publish the Estoria muy verdadera de dos amantes, Euríalo franco y Lucrecia senesa in Salamanca in 1495. He could do so since his father was in the service of this Pope between 1560 and 1564 in Rome. His father's protector in those years was the cardinal Próspero Colonna (1426-1463), who opened the door to our Hellenist during his future book activities (Tragicomedia, 1506) with Gentile Montefeltro, her sister Agnesina Montefeltro (Itinerario,1508), married to Fabricio Colonna (and Agnesina's daughter Vitoria Colonna (La Propalladia, 1517) who was married to the Marqies of Pescara, Fernando de Ávalos.Our Hellenist was not just any character, because he was a descendent of an important family of which the members had royal occupations as courtiers. Thanks to his study with Nebrija he considers himself an expert in the Spanish language. This is reflected in his books when he (under pseudonyms) fiercely discusses printers who made mistakes and changed his text.Already in his young years he had gained experience in France and Italy and probably due to the inquisitions he used pseudonyms, like Francisco de Enzina, in all his books and manuscripts. At the beginning of the XVI century he decided to leave Spain and find his future in Italy. Thanks to his knowledge and the influence of his family it was not difficult for him to alternate with the characters at a high level. He could therefore establish early contact with Pietro Bembo, Federico Fregoso and Baldassarre Castiglione. His influence as Spanish courtier was so strong that various members of the humanistic circles of the court of Guidobaldo de Montefeltro started writing books. These humanistic circles would be a good springboard for our Hellenist in Italy, because he had contacts with Baltasar Castiglione, son of Luigia Gonzaga, César Gonzaga, Octavino Fregoso, and Pietro Bembo, brother-in-law of Cesar Gonzaga; also Julio de Medici and Federico Fregoso, son of Gentile Feltría.Our Hellenist was the chess master of Lucrecia Borgia in Ferrara and dedicated verses to her which were found in a version of one of his editions of Arnalte y Lucenda. There he had friendship with Jacopo Caviceo who wrote Il Peregrino in 1508 which was dedicated to Lucrecia Borgia. The influence of the work of Calisto and Melibea is noted throughout the work Il Peregrino and there is no doubt that Caviceo had contact with our Hellenist in Ferrara. It is logical to understand that the historians could never determine the biography of Hernán Díaz, the so-called translator of the Spanish work in 1516, known as Libro de los honestos amores de Peregrino y Ginebra, because it was a pseudonym of our Hellenist. Also in Ferrara our Hellenist could dispose of one of the many copies of Filippo Beroaldo's Latin work about Asno de oro and could have translated this work there. The goal of this book is to serve as a toolbox from which researchers can draw conclusions about the possibility that the first translation of Asno de oro was not translated by Diego López de Cortegana, but presumably by our Hellenist.