Spanish Humanism on the Verge of the Picaresque - Juan Maldonado's "Ludus Chartarum," "Pastor Bonus," and "Bacchanalia" (Paperback)

Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia, Vol. 24The sixteenth-century humanist Juan Maldonado (c. 1485 1554), in his Latin essays, foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. 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 on entertaining while teaching a Latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia is a spirited play pitting the forces of Lent against those of Bacchus. These works have been edited and translated into English by Warren S. Smith and Clark Colahan for the first time, with illustrations of scenes from each work, and of sixteenth-century cards, by Richard Simmons and Caleb Smith."

General

Imprint:	Leuven University Press
Country of origin:	Belgium
Series:	Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia
Release date:	May 2009
First published:	May 2009
Editors:	Clark Colahan • Warren S. Smith
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Cloth over boards
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-90-5867-708-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	90-5867-708-7
Barcode:	9789058677082

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