Sátira y filosofía en los studia humanitatis: la influencia de Luciano y Epicuro en Lorenzo Valla, León Battista Alberti y Tomás Moro

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  • Mariano Vilar UBA – CONICET

Keywords:

Epicureanism, Lucian , Renaissance

Abstract

During the fifteenth century, the new interest in the recovery of the ancient culture brought to light the De rerum natura from Lucretius and the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophersfrom Diogenes Laërtius. Both texts had an impact on the new interest in the epicurean sect, which had begun before this findings. At the same time, the utilization of texts from Lucian of Samosata by Manuel Chrysoloras in his Greek classes in the city of Florence provoked a series of imitations and reformulation of the satiric works of this author. In this article, we propose an analysis of the particular way in which Lorenzo Valla, Leon Battista Alberti and Thomas More used the satiric model from Lucian to present their representation and reformulation of the epicurean ideas, and to mock the philosophical ethos from different perspectives. From this point of view we will focus on three works: De vero falsoque bono (1433), Momus sive de principe (1450) and the Utopia (1516).

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How to Cite

Vilar, M. (2019). Sátira y filosofía en los studia humanitatis: la influencia de Luciano y Epicuro en Lorenzo Valla, León Battista Alberti y Tomás Moro. Cuadernos Del Sur Letras, (42), 277–294. Retrieved from https://ojs.uns.edu.ar/csl/article/view/1585

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