‘The Greek Commander’ Hernán Núñez de Toledo, Spanish Humanist and Civic Leader
1978; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 31; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2860373
ISSN1935-0236
Autores Tópico(s)Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
ResumoOne of the principal differences separating the Italian Renaissance from the Spanish has been the civic character of the Italian humanists’ professional lives. Intense involvement in urban politics, crucial to the development of rhetoric and historical perspective in the works of Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Francesco Guicciardini, has seemed to be missing in the careers of Spanish humanists. The careers of Spain's most renowned humanists, Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) and ‘the Greek Commander’ Hernán Núñez de Toledo (1470?-1553), have been the best exemplars of the academic, rather than civic, context of Spanish humanism: their humanist translations and editions of Latin and Greek texts were published after Nebrija and Núñez were incorporated into the university community as faculty.
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