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These new translations of Bernat Metge’s Libre de Fortuna e Prudència (1381) into Spanish (verse) and English (prose) make this key early work by 14th-century Catalonia’s most challenging writer available to the wider audience it has longed deserved. As with Metge’s masterwork, Lo somni (The Dream), recently translated by Cortijo Ocaña and Elisabeth Lagresa (Benjamins, 2013), the writing of The Book of Fortune and Prudence seems to have been precipitated by a larger crisis in Catalan society, in this case, an all-too-familiar-sounding banking crisis. Drawing on sources ranging from Boethius, to the Roman de la Rose to Arthurian fable, Metge unveils the workings of the world through his two allegorical women, Fortune (good and bad) and Prudence, in a search for consolation in the midst of inexplicable reversals of fortune--those of others, and perhaps his own. But as in the Somni, Metge refuses here to offer pat solutions to the crises of his day, offering what is perhaps one of our earliest glimpses of the impact of new ideas coming from Italy in the Iberian Peninsula. The work is written in the popular noves rimades form (octosyllabic rhymed couplets) in the challenging mix of Occitan and Catalan common to verse writing in 14th century Catalonia. Cortijo’s and Martines’s tri-lingual edition, together with its fine introduction and notes, is an extremely valuable contribution as it makes this unduly neglected text of the later Iberian Middle Ages available for students and other readers in a broadly accessible, yet scholarly, form. (Prof. John Dagenais, UCLA)
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T078034 Dedication signed: W. de Britaine. The titlepage of the second volume reads: 'Human prudence. The second part. .. '. Dublin: re-printed by and for Samuel Fairbrother, 1726. 2v.; 12°
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1717 edition. Excerpt: ... may delay or divert it?.._., . ', . "The Moor Abai, Brother and Heir to the King of Granada, being taken Prisoner in Solobema, to beguile his Misery, used sometime to play at Checks, (a true representation of the dame ot.Fortune;) he was no sooner set down, but in comes a Courier to tell him he must prepare him 'Wself to die, Inexorable Death comes always post; 'the Moor desired him to respite for two Hours; "the Commissary thought it too long, but yet granted him leave to play out his Game; he play d and won both his Life and the Kingdom; for before the Game was ended, another Post arrived w.ttv News of the King's Death, whereby the City ot Granada presented him with their Keys. No Man hath reason to complain when we are all in the fame condition; he that escaped might have suffered, whatsoever may be any Man s lot, never complain if it be your own-, lam prepared against all Misfortunes and Infelicities, expecting whatsoever may be, will be. Must I be poor? I (hall have Company: Must I be banished? I'll think my self born there; and the way to Heaven is alike in all Places. Have I any Injuries done me? they are but so many Robes of Honour, which I can chearfully wear; and out of the greatest Infelicities, I can raise Trophies, and a Triumphal Arch: I have this comfort in my Misfortunes, that wheresoever I go, I have the same Nature, the same Providence, and I carry my Virtues along with me. If I have lost any thing, it was adventitious;. and the less Money, the less Trouble; the kss Favour, the less Envy: Is your Treasure stollen? it's not lost, but restored; he is an ill Debtor that counts repayment loss. What is it that I labour, . sweat, and solicit for? When it's very little that I want, and it will not be long that I shall...