Las dos obras de Alfonso Vald�s, el Di�logo de Lactancio y un Arcediano, m�s conocido como Di�logo de las cosas ocurridas en Roma; y el Di�logo de Mercurio y Car�n, son discursos en los que defiende la pol�tica del emperador Carlos V y ensalza el pensamiento erasmista (erasmismo) antes de que esta corriente pase a ser censurada en el medio siglo siguiente. Son alegatos pol�ticos que incluyen numerosos documentos de la canciller�a imperial. Su ideal cristiano y erasmista abarca todos los aspectos de la vida, todas las jerarqu�as y todos los estados de la sociedad.
La vida de Alfonso de Valdés estuvo dedicada al servicio de la defensa del Emperador y de Erasmo. Escribirá su Diálogo para mostrar "cómo el emperador ninguna culpa en ello tiene". También su apasionado erasmismo aparece en la obra, pues no en vano llegó a ser el más fiel valedor de Erasmo en España. Un hecho histórico, el saco de Roma, está en la raíz de esta obra literaria. La estructura es sumamente sencilla. Se formula el propósito desde el principio.
Annotation This is the third of four volumes which trace the history of the later Crusades and papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V and the battle of Lepanto (1566-1571). From the mid-fourteenth century to the conclusion of his work, the author has drawn heavily upon unpublished materials, collected in the course of more than twenty "palaeographical journeys" to the Archivio Segreto Vaticano and the Archivi di Stato in Venice, Mantua, Modena, Milan, Siena, Florence, and the Archives of the Order of the Hospitallers at Malta. Volumes 1, II, and IV are available at www.amphilsoc.org.
Un caballero mancebo de la corte del Emperador, llamado Lactancio, topó en la plaza de Valladolid con un arcediano que venía de Roma en hábito de soldado y, entrando en San Francisco, hablan sobre las cosas en Roma acaecidas. En la primera parte, muestra Lactancio al Arcediano cómo el Emperador ninguna culpa en ello tiene, y en la segunda, cómo todo lo ha permitido Dios por el bien de la cristiandad.Este libro posee una biografía de con foto del autor.
In sixteenth-century Marrakesh, a Flemish merchant converts to Judaism and takes his Catholic brother on a subversive reading of the Gospels and an exploration of the Jewish faith. Their vivid Spanish dialogue, composed by an anonym in 1583, has until now escaped scholarly attention in spite of its success in anti-Christian clandestine literature until the Enlightenment. Based on all nine available manuscripts, this critical edition rediscovers a pioneering work of Jewish self-expression in European languages. The introductory study identifies the author, Estêvão Dias, locates him in insurgent Antwerp at the beginning of the Western Sephardi diaspora, and describes his hybrid culture shaped by the Iberian Renaissance, Portuguese crypto-Judaism, Mediterranean Jewish learning, Protestant theology, and European diplomacy in Africa. "The Marrakesh Dialogues has been mentioned only rarely in the scholarly literature, and Wilke’s edition and extended discussion constitute the first attempt at editing the text based upon all the textual evidence, placing it into its historical context, identifying the author and the dramatis personae of the text, analysing the treatise’s contents, and presenting it to a wide audience. He is successful because of his broad knowledge of the political and religious trends in early modern Europe, coupled with close familiarity with converso life and literature." - Daniel L. Lasker, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in: Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. LXVII No. 2, pp. 428-35
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Rome was an aged but still vigorous power while Spain was a rising giant on track toward becoming the world’s most powerful and first truly global empire. This book tells the fascinating story of the meeting of these two great empires at a critical moment in European history. Thomas Dandelet explores for the first time the close relationship between the Spanish Empire and Papal Rome that developed in the dynamic period of the Italian Renaissance and the Spanish Golden Age. The author examines on the one hand the role the Spanish Empire played in shaping Roman politics, economics, culture, society, and religion and on the other the role the papacy played in Spanish imperial politics and the development of Spanish absolutism and monarchical power. Reconstructing the large Spanish community in Rome during this period, the book reveals the strategies used by the Spanish monarchs and their agents that successfully brought Rome and the papacy under their control. Spanish ambassadors, courtiers, and merchants in Rome carried out a subtle but effective conquest by means of a distinctive “informal” imperialism, which relied largely on patronage politics. As Spain’s power grew, Rome enjoyed enormous gains as well, and the close relations they developed became a powerful influence on the political, social, economic, and religious life not only of the Iberian and Italian peninsulas but also of Catholic Reformation Europe as a whole.
En esta obra, de estructura sencilla, se refleja el apasionado erasmismo del autor. Se fundamenta en un hecho histórico, el saqueo de Roma; para exculpar al Emperador, la sucesión de hechos aparece como fruto de la voluntad divina.
