Alfonso de Cartagena’s remarks on History and the Historians: Ancient and Modern Princes portrayed in the Duodenarium
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https://doi.org/10.37536/RPM.2018.32.0.65719Keywords:
Alfonso de Cartagena, Fernán Pérez de Guzmán, Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Duodenarium, Epistle to the Count of Haro, Anacephaleosis, Council of BaselAbstract
The permanent contact with other European intellectuals during the sessions of the Council of Basel (1434-1439) must be considered as a fundamental factor to understand the evolution of Alfonso de Cartagena’s political thought and the appearance of some new scholarly interests. Not by chance, don Alfonso began to write his Duodenarium (c. 1442) soon after his return to Castile, under the request of his friend Fernán Pérez de Guzmán. If compared title with contents, we see that don Alfonso could not end the work, since he only answered to four of the twelve questions posed by Pérez de Guzmán. This article focuses on the third, where don Alfonso explains his ideas about History and on the duties of historians.
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