Moderation and the Mean in the Literature of Spain's Golden Age

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Moderation and the Mean in the Literature of Spain's Golden Age is written by Richard Rabone and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 019286274X (ISBN 10) and 9780192862747 (ISBN 13).

A sustained analysis of the reception of the Aristotelian golden mean in early modern Spanish literature. Studying works of three canonical authors--Garcilaso, Calderón, Gracián--it argues that the ethical credo of moderation was an important part of the classical inheritance on which Golden Age authors frequently drew.