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De Europae dissidiis et republica Â
Series: - Selected Works of Juan Luis Vives, Volume: 12
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The De Europae dissidiis et republica (On Conflicts in Europe and on the Commonwealth) is a collection published by Vives in 1526 that has been called his âsumma politica.â It contains five letters, to Henry VIII and three prelates including Cardinal Wolsey; a Lucian-style underworld satire on European wars and the Turkish threat; and Latinizations of two political speeches by Isocrates.
It counsels the pursuit of peace following Christian principles, but it also explores the possibility of an aggressive war against the Turks as the means of unifying and saving European Christendom. It urges the calling of a council to deal with Luther. We present critical Latin texts and, for the first time, English translations, with introduction and notes.
It counsels the pursuit of peace following Christian principles, but it also explores the possibility of an aggressive war against the Turks as the means of unifying and saving European Christendom. It urges the calling of a council to deal with Luther. We present critical Latin texts and, for the first time, English translations, with introduction and notes.
Edward V. George, PhD (University of Wisconsin) taught Classics at Texas Tech University (1971-2010). He has published editions of three of Vivesâs works, numerous articles on Vives and rhetoric, and other studies touching Luisa Sigea and Latin of New Spain.
Gilbert Tournoy taught Latin language and literature (Classical, Medieval, and Neo-Latin) at the University of Leuven. He specializes in the study of humanism in Italy and the Netherlands (Erasmus, Vives, Lipsius) and is currently preparing a critical edition of Vivesâs correspondence.
Gilbert Tournoy taught Latin language and literature (Classical, Medieval, and Neo-Latin) at the University of Leuven. He specializes in the study of humanism in Italy and the Netherlands (Erasmus, Vives, Lipsius) and is currently preparing a critical edition of Vivesâs correspondence.
"The eight pieces merge into a credo of Renaissance pacifism, until now accessible only to specialists [...] The translations, no matter how well done, are subordinate to the Latin, and the Latin is what Vivesâs first admirers admired [...] The English translation raises the curtain; the Latin texts carry the day. The Selected Works of J. L. Vives can welcome this volume proudly."
Willis Goth Regier, University of Illinois, in Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme 43.2 (Spring 2020), pp 414-416.
Willis Goth Regier, University of Illinois, in Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme 43.2 (Spring 2020), pp 414-416.
All interested in 16th century European politics, Neo-Latin satire, Neo-Latin epistolography, Vives, Northern Renaissance Latin literature, Europe â Ottoman Empire relations, Italian wars (16th century), Isocrates in the Renaissance, Renaissance pacifism. Keywords: Ottoman Empire, Naples, Milan, Papal States, Charles V, Francis I of France, Henry VIII, church councils, Duchy of Burgundy, Hungary, Ferdinand II of Aragon, Alfonso the Magnanimous, Renaissance pacifism, Italian wars (16th century), Renaissance politics.