The satyrical «cantigas» of the Galician-Portuguese «cancioneiros» have mainly been interpreted as texts which document the social reality of the 13th. and 14th. Centuries. However, by taking into account the most recent studies on medieval poetics it is reasonable to ask if the meaning of this poetry should be sought on the sociological level, or if (as indeed the author of this article hopes to prove), on the...
In this article the author attempts to analyse certain aspects of literary construction and text rhetoric in Erasmus' Lingua (edited in 1525). The most important points are to do with, on the one hand, the relationship between the notion of homo loquax (with the question of the language capacity of man) and homo mendax (from the perspective of the doctrine of the philosophia Christi), and on the other hand, the...
Based in Camões’s edition of the Rimas published by Costa Pimpão in 1973, this paper analysis two terms found in his lyric work, the words virtue and vice. Other expressions evolve around these two words, all of which involve in a semantic relationship centred in the meaning of the two terms. The study confirmed that if a word such as desire(s) is evenly represented in the different genres found in the Rimas, o...
The current approach to Camões’ roundel «Sobre os Rios» conveys an attempt to analyse the poem according to the following guidelines: i) its relationship with the Psalm «super flumina Babylonis», taking into account the known manuscript testimonies from the second half of the 16th century; ii) the relationship between the subject of enunciation and the possible receivers of the discourse, considering other plac...
«What other thing is the city but a large monastery» (letter to Martinho Dorp, 1518); «I have always let myself be enchanted by the large buildings and the big cities» (letter to Johann Choler, 1529). These two phrases by Desiderius Erasmus synthesise the theme of this article: the idea of the humanist from Rotterdam that the life of Christians should concentrate on the imitation and on the philosophy of Christ...
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