Il genere biografico degli umanisti e la ricezione nella Penisola Iberica nel Quattrocento: appunti per una revisione

Abstract

The recovery of the biographical genre in the framework of the Greek and Latin authors was a phenomenon during the Italian Quattrocento of great literary and cultural reach whose expansive wave reached the Iberian Peninsula in the same period. Some chapters of this reception are to be connected directly to the resurgence of Plutarch and the Quattrocento Latin translations of the Vite parallele. A large number of these versions were published for the first time around 1470 and a 1478 reprint was later fully translated into Spanish; this resurgence involved a considerable increase of biographical booklets in Hispanic territory, not always taken with due consideration.