Spanish Humanism on the Verge of the Picaresque(English, Paperback, Colahan Clark)

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Spanish Humanism on the Verge of the Picaresque(English, Paperback, Colahan Clark) is written by Colahan Clark and published by Leuven University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9058677087 (ISBN 10) and 9789058677082 (ISBN 13).

The 16th-century humanist Juan Maldonado in his Latin essays foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Like Erasmus, with whom he corresponded,Maldonado advocated the use of Latin in a wide-range of activities. Maldonado's Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satirical style the abuses of the churchmen in his diocese. His ludus chartarum is framed as a colloquium similar to Vives' on the subject, entertaining while teaching a Latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia, written for student actors, is a spirited play pitting the forces of Lent against those of Bacchus, as in the Libro de buen amor. These works have been edited and translated into English by Warren Smith and Clark Colahan for the first time, with illustrations of scenes from each work, and of 16th-century cards, by Richard Simmons and Caleb Smith.