La «silva de devoçión», compilación renacentista de una monja de Santo Domingo el Real de Madrid
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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- Pedro M. Cátedra (dir.)
- Juan Miguel Valero (dir.)
Editorial: Instituto de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas y de Humanidades Digitales, IEMYRhd ; Universidad de Salamanca
ISBN: 978-84-121557-0-9, 978-84-121557-4-7
Ano de publicación: 2021
Título do volume: El Renacimiento literario en el mundo hispánico: de la poesía popular a los nuevos géneros del humanismo
Volume: 4
Páxinas: 169-183
Tipo: Capítulo de libro
Resumo
This paper aims to contribute to the knowledge of feminine religious literature of the Renaissance. Silva de devoçión is a miscellaneous work written in 1588 by a nun from the convent of Santo Domingo el Real in Madrid. The manuscript is kept in the National Library of Spain under the signature Ms. 4792. In this paper, a thorough description of the manuscript is made, the changes introduced by different readers in the text are shown, and the interesting paratextual elements that it contains are analyzed: i. e. the approval by two Dominican censors and a laudatory critical appraisal made in 1808 by fray Juan Muñoz from the convent of the Passion in Madrid, who assumes that the authorship of the manuscript cannot be awarded under any circumstances to Constanza de Castilla, granddaughter of King Pedro I. From the statements made in the text by the anonymous author, some biographical information of interest is revealed: her date of birth (1518), the date on which she enters the convent at the age of seven years (1525) and that of her death (1601). Other issues, such as the compilatory nature of the text, its structure, and the author’s reflections on what the purpose of the nuns should be, are also considered in this paper. God chooses women for His service, so they must covet spiritual perfection without lukewarmness and with courage.