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Sixteenth-Century Spanish Translations and the Absence of Print Sixteenth-Century Spanish Translations and the Absence of Print
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Sixteenth-Century Spanish Humanism, Colonization, and Utopia Sixteenth-Century Spanish Humanism, Colonization, and Utopia
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More’s Martyrdom and a New Translation More’s Martyrdom and a New Translation
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Comparing Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Translations of Utopia Comparing Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Translations of Utopia
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12 Receiving More: Utopia in Spain and New Spain
Get accessDarcy Kern is Associate Professor of History at Southern Connecticut State University. She has published on topics including Jean Gerson’s conciliarism in late medieval Spain, fifteenth-century Castilian histories, and Spanish narratives of Mary I.
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Published:18 December 2023
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Abstract
In Utopia’s first 150 years Spanish bureaucrats, clerics, scholars, and courtiers on both sides of the Atlantic read it in Latin. Though its circulation may not have been as robust in Spain as it was elsewhere in Europe, it found a receptive audience, some of whom thought it worthwhile to translate the text into Castilian Spanish, though these early translations were not printed. The Inquisition’s interference in 1583 discouraged but did not eliminate interest in More’s work and hindered publication of a vernacular translation until 1637, when one appeared thanks to the efforts of a famous patron, Francisco de Quevedo. By the seventeenth century, interest in Utopia seems to have declined. The extant translations suggest that people interpreted Utopia differently in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, though in both periods it was used as a practical guide for reform. For sixteenth-century Spanish readers it served as a real guide to a new world, one with all the possibilities for reform that More laid out. Though they read it with great seriousness, they also read it humanely and as applicable to individual human beings with souls and wills of their own. In the seventeenth century Utopia continued to serve as a basis for reform but without the Neoplatonic optimism and immediate application that American exploration had provided a century earlier. It now belonged to a society in which institutional power and reason of state governed human relations and limited human knowledge. Ultimately, Utopia, that elusive no-place, proved a chimera in Spain.
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