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Alfonso de Cartagenaâs "Memoriale virtutum" (1422)
Aristotle for Lay Princes in Medieval Spain
Series: - The Iberian Religious World, Volume: 8
In Alfonso de Cartagenaâs 'Memoriale virtutum' (1422), MarÃa Morrás and Jeremy Lawrance offer a critical edition of an anthology of Aristotleâs Nicomachean Ethics, compiled and significantly altered by the major Castilian intellectual of the day, Bishop Alfonso de Cartagena, and addressed to the heir to the throne of Portugal, Crown Prince Duarte.
The work is a speculum principis, an education of a future king in the virtues suitable to a statesman. Cartagenaâs choice of Aristotle was a harbinger of Renaissance ideas. The âmemorialâ sheds light on a society in transition, setting new ethical guidelines for the ruling class at the crossroads between medieval feudalism and Renaissance absolutism.
The work is a speculum principis, an education of a future king in the virtues suitable to a statesman. Cartagenaâs choice of Aristotle was a harbinger of Renaissance ideas. The âmemorialâ sheds light on a society in transition, setting new ethical guidelines for the ruling class at the crossroads between medieval feudalism and Renaissance absolutism.
MarÃa Morrás Ph.D. (1990, Berkeley), Professor in Humanities at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and Special Lecturer at Oxford, works on medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature, particularly the cultural impact of humanism. She has edited Cartagenaâs Ciceronian translations, Libros de Tulio (Alcalá, 1996).
Jeremy Lawrance, DPhil (1983, Oxford), Emeritus Professor of Spanish at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham, studies the history of ideas. He has edited and translated Latin works by Cartagena (Bellaterra, 1979), Vitoria (Cambridge, 1991), and Palencia (Madrid, 1998â99).
Jeremy Lawrance, DPhil (1983, Oxford), Emeritus Professor of Spanish at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham, studies the history of ideas. He has edited and translated Latin works by Cartagena (Bellaterra, 1979), Vitoria (Cambridge, 1991), and Palencia (Madrid, 1998â99).
Preface
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
â1âThe book and its milieu
â2âCourses for horses: Aristotle for lay princes
â3âMemorialeâs paratexts: political and cultural ideas
â4âStyle and Latinity
Prolegomena to the critical edition
â1âDescription of MSS
â2âRecension
â3âEditorial criteria
â4âTranslation
Stemma and sigla
Tabula (addita ad initium A)
Liber i
Liber ii
Apparatus of minor variants
Works cited
Index
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
â1âThe book and its milieu
â2âCourses for horses: Aristotle for lay princes
â3âMemorialeâs paratexts: political and cultural ideas
â4âStyle and Latinity
Prolegomena to the critical edition
â1âDescription of MSS
â2âRecension
â3âEditorial criteria
â4âTranslation
Memoriale virtutum: Text and translation
Stemma and sigla
Tabula (addita ad initium A)
Liber i
Liber ii
Apparatus of minor variants
Works cited
Index
All readers and libraries concerned with the literature, society, and history of ideas of late medieval Spain; the impact of humanism; and the Renaissance reception of Aristotelian philosophy.