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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.
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Debra Churchill
reviewed Spanish Humanism on the Verge of the Picaresque on October 18, 2012
Spanish Humanism on the Verge of the Picaresque
Note: This is really a 2.5 but I'm rounding up since I like history.
This book is an interesting and provocative attempt to examine and explain the Roman idea of honor. The book is not your usual history. It is more of an attempt to study how the Romans felt and what they believed about honor and why honor was important to them. It is very well footnoted and has a lot of supporting documentation. The book does a very good job of examining the changes from the late Republic period to the early Empire. I really enjoyed all the Latin which I haven't read in years. There were lots of interesting insights and thought provoking themes. Unfortunately, for me, the flaws were too many to give it a very high review. There are too many unsupported assertions, logic errors and confusing off topic tangents. As much as I enjoyed reading some of this, I would only recommend this to someone interested in reading a speculative view of Roman ideas of honor, shame, etc.. The conclusion parts of the book aren't as good as some of the earlier parts. It's a shame, really, because there is a lot of good stuff but it just doesn't hold together.
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