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Fray Antonio de Guevara, Libro llamado Menosprecio de corte y alabanza de aldea.

1539

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Document Date Century City Province
Fray Antonio de Guevara, Libro llamado Menosprecio de corte y alabanza de aldea. 1539 16cent/2/mid Valladolid Castilla-León
Summary

reference to the vihuela: [because the damage is not from many strings on the vihuela, but in lacking wise men at court].


Document type Subject Siglum Archive name Call no.
non-fiction print Literature Vihuelas
Original text

…porque no está el daño en tener vihuela muchas cuerdas, sino en faltar de la corte muchos cuerdos.

People mentioned
Name Status when cited Social status
Guevara, Fray Antonio de Living Ecclesiastical
Notes

An ironic statement based on word play in which there is the identification of vihuela and court, vihuela and wise government in the Humanist sense: “porque no está el daño en tener vihuela muchas cuerdas, sino en faltar de la corte muchos cuerdos” [because the damage is not from many strings on the vihuela, but in lacking wise men at court].