Elogio del discípulo y parresía en «democrates» de Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1535/1541)Una contribución del humanismo a las grandes discusiones de la ética civil
- 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Instituto Universitario Menéndez Pidal
- Pedro M. Cátedra (dir.)
- Juan Miguel Valero (dir.)
Publisher: 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
Year of publication: 2021
Volume Title: El Renacimiento literario en el mundo hispánico: de la poesía popular a los nuevos géneros del humanismo
Volume: 4
Pages: 321-339
Type: Book chapter
Abstract
The analysis of the disciples’ performance is always convenient in the dialogues, because they are necessary for the existence of the literary genre. But not everyone has the same argumentative and literary interest. Two interlocutors of Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda’s Democrates (Rome, 1535) offer suggestive argumentations considered within the framework of ‘Free Speech’, or parrhesia as an expression of freedom of thought and speech inherited from ancient Greek dialectic: Leopold, «a little Lutheran» and Alonso de Guevara, a skilled soldier from the wars in Italy since the days of the Great Captain. Also a Greek sage called Democrates acts as master or parresiastès and leads the discussion until the end. This paper is devoted to examining the chain of their reasonings and the argumentative contract on which the text is based in the superb Castilian vintage translation of Antonio Barba (Seville, 1541).