Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch
- The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Plutarch and Biography
- Chapter 2 Romanness and Greekness in Plutarch
- Chapter 3 Plutarch As Moral and Political Educator
- Chapter 4 In the Spirit of Plato
- Chapter 5 Plutarch As a Polemicist
- Chapter 6 Religion and Myth in Plutarch
- Chapter 7 Plutarch at the Symposium
- Chapter 8 Language, Style, and Rhetoric
- Chapter 9 Plutarch and Classical Greece
- Chapter 10 Great Men
- Chapter 11 Thinking “Private Life”
- Chapter 12 Wealth and Decadence in Plutarch’s Lives
- Chapter 13 Plutarch and the Barbarian “Other”
- Chapter 14 Plutarch and Animals
- Chapter 15 Plutarch in Byzantium
- Chapter 16 Plutarch in the Italian Renaissance
- Chapter 17 Plutarch and the Spanish Renaissance
- Chapter 18 Plutarch and Shakespeare
- Chapter 19 Plutarch in France
- Bibliography
- Appendix: Plutarch’s Moralia
- Index Locorum
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Chapter 17 - Plutarch and the Spanish Renaissance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2023
- The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch
- The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Plutarch and Biography
- Chapter 2 Romanness and Greekness in Plutarch
- Chapter 3 Plutarch As Moral and Political Educator
- Chapter 4 In the Spirit of Plato
- Chapter 5 Plutarch As a Polemicist
- Chapter 6 Religion and Myth in Plutarch
- Chapter 7 Plutarch at the Symposium
- Chapter 8 Language, Style, and Rhetoric
- Chapter 9 Plutarch and Classical Greece
- Chapter 10 Great Men
- Chapter 11 Thinking “Private Life”
- Chapter 12 Wealth and Decadence in Plutarch’s Lives
- Chapter 13 Plutarch and the Barbarian “Other”
- Chapter 14 Plutarch and Animals
- Chapter 15 Plutarch in Byzantium
- Chapter 16 Plutarch in the Italian Renaissance
- Chapter 17 Plutarch and the Spanish Renaissance
- Chapter 18 Plutarch and Shakespeare
- Chapter 19 Plutarch in France
- Bibliography
- Appendix: Plutarch’s Moralia
- Index Locorum
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Summary
The impact of classical literature in Spain during the so-called Golden Age ("Siglo de Oro") of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries among intellectuals (not only theologians but also other men and women linked to the imperial court and to the major universities) was to a large degree contingent upon the dominant influence of the Catholic Church. Plutarch (in particular, his Moralia) was viewed by the Spanish Renaissance as one of the more “legitimate” authors from ancient Greece. This chapter will deal with translations of Plutarch’s works into Spanish and look at the intertextual footprint of the Lives and Moralia in Spanish theological and philosophical thinking in scholarship and historiography. Finally, Plutarch’s role in the discourse of visuo-textual allegorism of the Spanish Renaissance will be addressed.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch , pp. 340 - 356Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023