{"id":16299,"date":"2022-01-17T17:26:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T17:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=16299"},"modified":"2022-01-19T14:31:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:31:40","slug":"brocato-2022-congress-paper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/brocato-2022-congress-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Brocato (2022 Congress Paper)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linde M. Brocato<\/strong>
\n(University of Miami<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

“When Politics Press Publishing:
\nHern\u00e1n N\u00fa\u00f1ez and Vernacular Publishing (1499\u20131555)”<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Abstract of Paper
\n57th International Congress on Medieval Studies
\n(Online, 2022)<\/h3>\n

Session on
\n“Pressing Politics:
\nInteractions between Authors and Printers
\nin the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries”<\/h4>\n

Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Organized by David Porreca and Linde M. Brocato
\n2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies Program<\/a><\/h4>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/h4>\n

The scholarly life of Hern\u00e1n N\u00fa\u00f1ez<\/a> is eventful.\u00a0 His studies in Bologna at the Colegio Espa\u00f1ol in the 1490s are followed by service in the household of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza<\/a>, during which time he prepared and published Juan de Mena\u2019s Laberinto de Fortuna<\/a> with an extensive erudite commentary. He then served on the faculty of the Complutense working on the Biblia Pol\u00edglota<\/a>, but a\udbc0\udc02er a brief entanglement with the Comuneros, moved to Salamanca, where he became professor of Greek.<\/p>\n

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Hern\u00e1n N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Refranes o Prouerbios (Salamanca, 1555), Title Page. Image: http:\/\/catalogo.bne.es\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/0\/x\/0\/05?searchdata1=a4655337, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

N\u00fa\u00f1ez\u2019s publications in classics are important, and he is best known today for his Mena commentary, but he also has the honor of having compiled one of the earliest anthologies of Spanish proverbs in his Refranes o proverbios en romance<\/a> (1555), the content of which is not my focus here, but rather the way that it begins with a scene of editorial tension and ends with a post-mortem work extolling N\u00fa\u00f1ez modelled on Mena\u2019s Coronaci\u00f3n that ends by also addressing Carajicomedia, obscene parody of N\u00fa\u00f1ez\u2019s edition of Mena (first published in Obras de burlas provocantes a risa<\/em>, 1519). Both scenes recorded in the 1555 edition (Salamanca: Juan de Canova) allow us to explore and reflect on the politics of publishing in the sixteenth century.<\/p>\n

The copy of N\u00fa\u00f1ez\u2019s Refranes<\/em> at the University of Illinois, Urbana\u2013Champaign, allows us to go a step further, as a reader has commented on one of the refranes<\/em> \u2013 \u201cA barua muerta poca vergue[n]\u00e7a. Quiere dezir, Poco acatamiento al muerto\u201d [A dead beard has little shame. Which means, Pay little heed to a dead man] (folio Ir) \u2013 by annotating it with \u201cEl Cid mostr\u00f3 al rev\u00e9s\u201d [The Cid demonstrated the opposite]. This is another allusion to a di\udbc0\udc03erent vernacular work, the Cr\u00f3nica popular del Cid<\/a>, itself a signal of other political tensions. This paper explores all three.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Linde M. Brocato (University of Miami) “When Politics Press Publishing: Hern\u00e1n N\u00fa\u00f1ez and Vernacular Publishing (1499\u20131555)” Abstract of Paper 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Online, 2022) Session on “Pressing Politics: Interactions between Authors and Printers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries” Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Organized by David Porreca and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16329,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16299\/revisions\/16329"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}