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Pen Portraits of Illustrious Castilians (Paperback)
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Pen Portraits of Illustrious Castilians (Paperback)
Series: Medieval Texts in Translation
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Medieval Texts in Translation Series Pen Portraits of Illustrious
Castilians is the first English translation of Generaciones y
Semblanzas, a compilation of thirty-four biographical sketches of
the most illustrious Castilians of the mid-fifteenth century. These
include three kings, a queen, and thirty nobles, prelates, and
scholars who represented the most prominent families of the day.
Notably, this is the first collection of biographies in Spanish
historiography to be published. The text was written in Spanish in
1450 by Fernan Perez de Guzman, an historian, moralist, politician,
and poet whose personal contact with the most powerful nobles of
the time provided him with the material for these intimate and
revealing portraits. Through insightful commentary on his subjects'
family background, personality traits, outstanding deeds, virtues,
and vices, the author brings to the reader vivid portraits of some
of the most important players in Castilian history. Within the
portraits, occasional digressions provide the author with the
opportunity to present his own personal beliefs on such timely
issues as the situation of Jewish convers in Castilla, the greed
and self-serving motives of many of his contemporaries, and the
role played by Divine Providence in shaping the history of his
country. Perez's introduction appears to be the first treatise
written in Spanish on the nature of history and on the duties and
responsibilities of those recording it. The translators have
succeeded in maintaining certain stylistic characteristics of
fifteenth-century Spanish without sacrificing readability. Their
introduction and notes provide useful background information, as do
the map and genealogical table.
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