El Arte Epistolar En El Renacimiento Español

by Jamile Trueba Lawand

A study of letter-writing in Renaissance Spain.

The subject of this book is the art of letter-writing in the Renaissance period, which, particularly in the case of Spain, has been unjustly neglected. The first part examines two major sixteenth-century treatises on letter-writing, Erasmus's Opus de conscribendis epistolis (1522) and Juan Luis Vives's De conscribendis epistolis(1536), concluding that the two were composed independently, rather...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855660350
• ISBN13: 9781855660359
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Editorial Tamesis
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"