El desprecio de una diosaun testimonio inédito de la traducción del diálogo Virtus Dea realizada por Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola

Abstract

This article summarizes several elements of philological interest that could be linked to the mythological story about the escape of the goddess Astrea and its treatment in the Spanish literature of the Golden Age. We offer the analysis of an unpublished testimony of the Diálogo de Mercurio y la Virtud: this text is a translation by Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola that could be interesting to study the treatment and reception of the contempt of the goddess Virtue, who is associated with the goddess of Justice, among the writers that dealt with moral issues in their texts. The article provides a codicological description of the MS in which we also analyze its interesting history up to present times. Also, we provide an analysis of two new testimonies of Argensola’s Menipo litigante and Demócrito (also included in this MS). Finally, we provide an edition of the Diálogo de Mercurio y la Virtud that includes variants from other testimonies, as well as a philological annotation.