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- Title
Plenty of Fish in the Sea: The Satires of Juvenal in a Late Fifteenth-Century Analysis of Spanish Court Education.
- Authors
Reeser, Sarah L.
- Abstract
In 1492, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, the future author of "De Orbe Novo," sent a letter to Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza, the primate of Spain, describing the state of Spanish education as Martyr took up a post as court tutor. This study argues that Martyr's letter was a satire that relied upon a close intertextual relationship with Juvenal's "Satires." This framework allowed Martyr to offer layered analyses of Spanish Latinity, the dynamics between Spanish and Italian humanists, patronage, and the role of arms and letters in noble life. Martyr's letter revealed a complex, and sometimes contradictory, assessment of court education, as well as an active reception of Juvenal.
- Subjects
SPAIN; EDUCATION; D'ANGHIERA, Peter Martyr; DE Mendoza, Pedro Gonzalez, 1428-1495; NOBILITY (Social class)
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2024, Vol 77, Issue 1, p59
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/rqx.2024.14