Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo (
A learned Spanish bishop, after studying law at
In 1450 Arévalo gave the annual encomium in honor of
After the elevation of
Works
His writings, mostly unedited, are in the Vatican and at Padua, and deal with ecclesiastical and political matters. The following have been printed: "Speculum Vitae Humanae" (Rome, 1468), a popular work, frequently reprinted in the next two centuries; it treats of the lights and shadows of the various estates of life; "Historia Hispanica," from the earliest times to 1469 (Rome, 1470), reprinted in the first volume of Andreas Schott's Hispania Illustrata. In addition to his Latin works, Arévalo also penned works in the vernacular. One of these treatises, Suma de la política, demonstrates the influence that Renaissance Humanism was beginning to have on the political and literary works in the kingdom of Castile in the fifteenth century.[2]
In "De Monarchia Orbis et de origine et differentiâ principatus imperialis et regalis" (Rome, 1521), he asserts for the pope the sole right to punish kings. His bold reproofs of certain ecclesiastical dignitaries caused Matthias Flacius to put him down as a forerunner of Martin Luther, but quite unjustly, as Nicolás Antonio has shown in his Bibliotheca Hispanica Vetus (II, 397, 608, 614).
- De arte, disciplina et modo aliendi et erudiendi filios, pueros et juvenes (1453)
- Suma de la política (1454/5), edited by Juan Beneyto Perez (1944), as well as Mario Penna (1959).
- Vergel de príncipes (1456/7)
- Speculum vitae humanae (1468) as Espejo de la vida humana (Zaragoza, 1491)
- Compendiosa historia Hispanica (c. 1470, title page)
References
- ^ https://www.academia.edu/7428931/I_panegirici_in_onore_di_s._Tommaso_d_Aquino_alla_Minerva_nel_XV_secolo_Memorie_Domenicane_N.S._30_1999_pp._19-146_recensito_su_Medioevo_latino_XXII_2001_n._4538_ Accessed 31 Dec. 2014; J. BLÁZQUEZ, Sermón de Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo en la fiesta de Santo Tomás de Aquino (7 marzo 1450), “Revista española de teologia” 34 (1974), 396-402.
- ^ Peters Jr.
- Stanonick in Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexicon, I, 1272
- Ludwig von Pastor, Geschichte der Paepste, I, 392, and II, 333, 342.
- Juan Marâia Laboa, Rodrigo Sanchez De Arevalo: Alcaide De Sant'Angelo, Fundaciâon Universitaria Espaänola, Seminario Nebrija, 1973.
- Richard H. Trame, Rodrigo Sanchez de Arevalo 1404-1470: Spanish Diplomat and Champion of the Papacy , Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1958.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Rodriguez Sanchez de Arevalo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
External links
- Peters Jr. Michael F., 2021. "Renaissance Humanism and Politics in Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo's Suma de la política (1454/55)", 2021 Annual Conference at the Renaissance Society of America. [1]
- Sánchez de Arévalo, Rodrigo: Compendiosa historia Hispanica, digitized codex, made in Italy between 1475 and 1499, at Somni
- Speculum vitae humanae. [Augsburg Günther Zainer, 1475-1478]. From the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress
Bibliography
Sánchez de Arévalo, Rodrigo, 1959. Suma de la política, in Prosistas castellanos del siglo XV, I, ed. by Mario Penna, Biblioteca de Autores Españoles 116 (Madrid: Atlas), p. 249-309.