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- Juan de Valdés was a Spanish Humanist. He and his twin brother, Alfonso, were members of an influential intellectual family that played significant roles in the religious, political, and literary life of Spain and its empire.
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His friends urged him to seek distinction as a humanist, but his bent was towards problems of Biblical interpretation in their bearing on the devout life.
Palabras clave: Humanismo, lingüista, filólogo erasmismo. Abstract: The humanist orientation in his own perspectives determined his work as a philologist. For that reason, he must be considered in such an extent one of the most important Spanish humanists. According to his humanist ideology, Juan de Valdés dealt with language and literature.
His brother, Alfonso de Valdés (? 1490–1532) was a noted humanist. His Diálogo de Mercurio y Carón (1529), which attacks religion that has become a matter of empty, outward forms, was long erroneously attributed to Juan.
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Alcalá, A. (ed.) 1997. Juan de Valdés. Obras completas, vol. 1. Diálogos. Escritos espirituales. Cartas. Madrid: Biblioteca Castro. All page references are to this edition. A second volume, Traducc...Anipa, K. (ed.). 2014. Diálogo de la lengua by Juan de Valdés. A diplomatic edition. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, All page references are to this edition.Google ScholarBarbolani, C. (ed.). 1967. Diálogo de la lengua. Messina: D’Anna.Google ScholarBataillon, M. (ed.). 1925. Juan de Valdés. Diálogo de doctrina cristiana. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade.Google ScholarAnipa, K. 2011. “¿Porque este libro es más antiguo?”: The early history of the Diálogo de la lengua revisited. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 2: 131–145, CXII.Google ScholarAsensio, E. 1952. El erasmismo y las corrientes espirituales afines. Revista de Filologia Española 36: 31–99.Google ScholarBataillon, M. 1991. Érasme et l’Espagne, ed. D. Devoto and C. Amiel, 3 vols. Geneva: Droz.Google ScholarCalvo Pérez, J. 1991. Tres biografías lingüísticas entorno a Cuenca: I. Juan de Valdés y la fuerza de la contradicción. Cuenca: Diputación Provincial de Cuenca.Google ScholarAnipa, K. 2012a. The use of literary sources in historical sociolinguistic research. In The handbook of historical sociolinguistics, ed. J.M. Fernández–Campoy and J.C. Conde–Silvestre, 175–195. Mal...Anipa, K. 2012b. Centrifugal and centripetal forces in the sociolinguistic configuration of the Iberian Peninsula. In Standard languages and multilingualism in European history, ed. M. Hüning, U. V...Bahner, W. 1966. La lingüística española del Siglo de Oro: aportaciones a la conciencia lingüística en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII. Madrid: Editorial Ciencia Nueva.Google ScholarBaugh. A., and T. Cable. 1993, 1951. A history of the English language. London: Routledge.Google ScholarVALDÉS, JUAN DE Humanist, religious leader, and theologian; b. Cuenca, Spain, 1490?; d. Naples, Italy, 1541. He was the son of a distinguished family of public servants. His elder brother, Alfonso de Valdés, became secretary for Latin letters to the Emperor Charles V. Source for information on Valdés, Juan de: New Catholic Encyclopedia ...
His greatest achievement was the establishment of the University of Alcala which united the new learning of the humanists with theological studies. The heart of the university was the School of Grammar which taught the classical and Biblical languages with heavy assignments in their respective literatures.
