La perfecta casada

Synopsis of La perfecta casada

«La perfecta casada» is the philosophical essay by Fray Luis de León, published by Faro Editores in paperback (191 pages, in Spanish).

Fray Luis de León offers a reflection on marriage centred on the figure of the wife, whom he describes as the mainstay of the home. He reviews the virtues, duties and behaviours that a married woman should practise to achieve a happy and orderly life together, in prose representative of sixteenth-century Spanish.

1996 paperback edition; the text dates from the sixteenth century and is classified under Philosophy and essay.

For those interested in classics of Spanish thought and in the vision of marriage and women in the sixteenth century.