Bernat Metge and Ramon Llull in front of the Saracens
Julia BUTIÑÁ JIMÉNEZ
Original title: Bernat Metge y Ramon Llull frente a los sarracenos
Published in Society and Culture in Portugal
Keywords: Bernat Metge, Humanisme, Middle Ages, Ramon Llull.
A passage from the book I of Bernat Metge’s Lo somni that had not been attended before, when hi is treating of the paradise of the Saracens, acquires a lucid sense with his reading in the shade of the Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis of Ramon Llull and under a humanistic interpretation. The systematic burlesque one of the barcelonian notary becomes clear across a source of traditional mentality: Ramon Martí. With it, Metge is anticipating the defense of the women, to which he will dedicate the books the III and IVth, as well as it signs his lulian adherence.
Bernat Metge, moralist: the degraded woman, exponent of the hatred and human suffering in his time
Júlia BUTINYÀ
Original title: Bernat Metge, moralista: la dona degradada, exponent de l’odi i del mal humà en el seu temps
Published in
Keywords: Bernat Metge, Catalan Literature, Humanism, Middle Ages, Moral.
Metge offers a new vision of women and their entity, which shifts the medieval as a result of contempt and, at the same time, is his prototypes of hatred. To this end, he portrays the most disgusting ad degrades version, which comes from the Corbaccio, followed by an exquisite gallery of women, inspired by classics. In fact, it is a moral reform, which pictured with the rejection of the misogyny and of the petrarquesque ethics towards love, which was the deformation of the agustinian and confirmed the traditional morality.
Structuring the tradition in the old Catalan Literatures: from Ramon Llull (1232-1316) to Bernat Metge (1340-1413)
Júlia BUTINYÀ
Original title: Estructurant la tradició en les lletres catalanes antigues: de Ramon Llull (1232-1316) a Bernat Metge (1340-1413)
Published in The World of Tradition
Keywords: Bernat Metge, Crown of Aragon, Humanism, Middle Ages, Ramon Llull.
To contribute to structuring the tradition in the Catalan letters of the Middle Ages, links are exposed that root the thought of the great humanist, Bernat Metge, in the great medieval philosopher, Ramon Llull. This link allows us to observe the continuity that, in one way or another and with greater or lesser intensity – and often with leaps of eras-, can be seen in the different literatures. According to the present proposal of textual concomitants, in the Crown of Aragon and through both authors, the connection between tradition and modernity occurs with high intensity in the 14th century itself, right at the beginning of the change in mentality and sensibility.
Ten little things that magnify the Catalan Griselda
Júlia BUTINYÀ
Original title: Deu petiteses que magnifiquen la Griselda catalana
Published in
Keywords: Bernat Metge, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Griselda, Humanism.
Ten little things that magnify the Catalan Griselda: The stories of Griselda by the Italian authors, Boccaccio and Petrarca, bear witness to a profound discussion, as revealed by the epistolary of the Seniles. Bernat Metge, sensitive to the new current, enters into this controversy with his Catalan version and through some letters. His support for Boccaccio and the disjunction towards the mentor, which were already known, we analyze here from ten corners of observation, which explain the sign of the Humanisme in its origins, and can still give reason for its course.
The Paradise in Lo somni by Bernat Metge (c. 1340-1413)
Julia BUTINYÀ JIMÉNEZ
Original title: El Paradís en Lo somni de Bernat Metge (c. 1340-1413)
Published in Returning to Eden
Keywords: Bernat Metge, Humanism, Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis, Lo somni, Ramon Llull.
The concept of Paradise is analyzed in Lo somni, the great humanist dialogue by the notary of the chancellery of Barcelona, Bernat Metge, from the perspective of different religions and traditions (Catholic, Classical, Saracen doctrine and Christianity). The observation also makes it possible to calibrate the strong influence of the Mallorca Philosopher Ramon Llull, who is confirmed behind the origins of the humanist movement, as well as underlines the very peculiar techniques, the intensity of his critical sense and especially the intimate classicist bond. Still, he advances positions which are current issues.
The step from Philosophy to Ethics: Ramón Llull and Bernat Metge
Julia BUTIÑÁ JIMÉNEZ
Original title: El paso de la Filosofía a la Ética: Ramón Llull y Bernat Metge
Published in
Keywords: Bernat Metge, Catalan Literature, Humanisme of the Crown of Aragon, Middle Ages, Ramon Llull.
At the beginning of the secular philosophy, there is the transition from Philosophy to Ethics, which inaugurated in the thirteenth century Ramon Llull, who assimilates Bernat Metge in his humanistic dialogue Lo somni in the next century. It will involve the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern, passing from Humanism to the Renaissance.
