by Antonio de Guevara · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437604893
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«Menosprecio de corte y alabanza de aldea» is the work by Antonio de Guevara that includes «Arte de marear», published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
Against the chivalric romances read by courtiers in the early sixteenth century, Antonio de Guevara offers a moral reflection contrasting life at court with life in the village. Through the voices of a courtier and a sailor, he draws from personal experience principles valid for universal human conduct.
Edition by Asunción Rallo Gruss in the Letras Hispánicas collection (no. 213). The volume also includes «Arte de marear».
Aimed at readers interested in sixteenth-century Spanish literature and Renaissance moral essay.
