Baltasar Gracián and the ethics of the Renaissance

Relvas, Maria de Jesus

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Relvas, Maria de Jesus

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The essay approaches the ethics relevantly inherent to the Renaissance courtly society of Europe, in general, and of England, in particular. Its most vivid and symptomatic formulation is contained in the works by two authors of the Continent who, in different ways, deeply influenced the Elizabethan authors: Baldassare Castiglione’s Il Cortegiano (1502; 1528) and Baltasar Gracián’s El héroe (1637), El discreto (1646) and Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1647).