Alfonso de Valdés
Alfonso de Valdés (1490 - 1532) was a Spanish Humaniste of the 16th century.
Biography
Near to Charles Quint, Alfonso de Valdés is regarded as one of the major representatives of the current erasmist in Spain. He denounces the hypocrisy of the ecclesiastics and the opulence in which they live, thus justifying the put at bag of Rome by the troops of Charles Quint in his work Diálogo de Lactancio there Arcediano O Diálogo of mow cosas ocurridas in Roma . He in addition contributes to legitimate the colonization of America in the Diálogo de Mercurio there Carón . A recent study supports the thesis according to which it could be the anonymous author of the Life of Lazarillo de Tormes .
He would have probably studied with Alcala de Henares, but it is known that he owed his important culture with the Humaniste Pierre Martyr of Anghiera. From 1526, he becomes secretary of the Latin letters of Charles Ier of Spain.
Its two works, Diálogo de Lactancio there Arcediano O Diálogo of mow cosas ocurridas in Roma ( Dialog of the things arrived at Rome ) and the Mercury Dialog and Charon are speeches in which it defends the policy of the emperor Charles Quint and tries to make pass the thought erasmist before this one is not censured in the middle of the next century. Its Christian ideal and erasmist include all the aspects of the life.
Its thought utopian made him express that its claim was to create a new world. Thus, in the dialog of Lactancio it shows its vision of the destiny of the world which has like centers an emperor and a pope, spiritual people who must control the people of the Christ.
Recently, following a meticulous research, professor Rosa Navarro Duran puts forth the assumption that Alfonso de Valdes can be the author of the Life of Lazarillo de Tormes , celebrates it picaresque Roman, anonymously published in 1554 with Burgos.
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