Edición y estudio de "La conquista del Reyno de Navarra" (1513) de Luis Correa

Résumé

Since La conquista del reino de avarra was published in Toledo in 1513, more than 300 years passed until it was first edited, concretely in 1843 by José Yanguas y Miranda. Since then, only Jesús María Usunáriz has returned to edit the text, but with a minimum variation from the proposal of Yanguas. This situation makes evident the need to present a new edition of the work of Luis Correa to reveal, by virtue of the new graphic applications, the nascent cultural order that was being configured in Spain since the late XV century. That is the intention of the present work. For this reason, in the first place, the formal characteristics of the document will be exposed in order to present, just after, in the second chapter, the political and cultural context where the processes that will culminate with Navarra’s military campaign are developed. As a consequence, the reader will be able to understand the double dimension that achieves La conquista as a propaganda vehicle, on the one hand to justify the military occupation and, on the other hand, to exalt the figure of the Duke of Alba, Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo. Therefore, in the third chapter, the evolution of historiographic and didactic genres that shape the content of the work to reach the desired objectives will be studied. Indeed, the text of Correa becomes a receptacle of the transformations that happen succesively in the area of the chronicles and biographies as long as the Middle Ages are being nourished of humanist precepts. Furthermore, it is also configured as a true military regiment, of princes and knights, so that the figure of the Duke of Alba appears constructed as an example of the common virtues of the Renaissance man. Thus, La conquista del reino de avarra represents the consolidation of a new historiographic genre, constituted by reports of military events linked to a biography, whose appearance is closely linked to the development of the ideas of the Humanism. The fourth chapter will be destined, therefore, to expose, through concrete examples, the virtues, but also the defects, of the Duke of Alba, in his role as a military man and as a knight, to become a truly realizable model of conduct within the parameters required by Humanism. Finally, the fifth chapter includes the different cultural references that Luis Correa boasts about to present his work, in short, as a manifestation of the cultural changes that allow the step from the Middle Ages into a new era, demonstrating in this way his broad intellectual formation and his identification with the new humanist thought.