Alfonso Martínez de Toledo
Alfonso Martínez de Toledo (ca. 1398 – ca. 1470), known as the
He wrote two
Corbacho
Martinez wrote the work known as Corbacho o Reprobación del amor mundano (1438), inspired by
Martínez employs bombastic language latinized by the device known as hyperbaton, and also employs rhymed prose and homeoteleuton. The value of this work resides in the fact that Martínez also employed vernacular language, capturing popular and colloquial speech, thus making his work a precursor to La Celestina.[1]
The first part of Corbacho is focused on earthly love, which Martínez rejects by pointing out all of its pitfalls.[4] In the second part, Martínez applies his arguments against earthly love to a criticism of women in general, repeating such stock arguments, for example, that women are the source of man's perdition.[4] Martínez's chapter titles alone indicate only too well his opinions on the opposite sex: “How a woman is jealous of anyone more beautiful than she,” “How a woman is disobedient,” “How a woman lies even while under oath,” “How a man should watch out for a drunken woman,” “How a woman loves whomever she pleases regardless of age.”[5]
References
- ^ a b Alfonso Martínez de Toledo “Arcipreste de Talavera” (1398-1470) Archived 2008-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Arcipreste de Talavera o Corbacho - Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- ^ Arcipreste de Talavera o Corbacho - Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- ^ a b Anita Obermeier, The History and Anatomy of Auctorial Self-criticism in the European Middle Ages (Rodopi, 1999), 240.
- ^ Arcipreste de Talavera o Corbacho - Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- ^ Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, 1529
Further reading
- Joachim Küpper: »Perception, Cognition and Volition in the Arcipreste de Talavera«, in: Stephen G. Nichols, Andreas Kablitz und Alison Calhoun (eds.): Rethinking the Medieval Senses. Heritage, Fascinations, Frames, Baltimore 2008, pp. 119–153.
External links
- Works by or about Alfonso Martínez de Toledo at Internet Archive
- Vida de Sanct Isidoro (digital text)
- Arcipreste de Talavera o Corbacho (digital text)