A strain of Senequisme in Late-Medieval Literature of the Catalan Domain: the case of Fra Francesc Moner (1463-1492)

• Autores: Peter Cocozzella
• Localización: Catalan Review: international journal of Catalan culture, ISSN 0213-5949, Vol. 20, Nº. 1, 2006 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special Cluster: Studies in Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture in Honor of David J. Viera), págs. 229-261
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This essay is an exploration of Seneca's influence on the bilingual (Catalan and Castilian) production, including poems and prose works, of Fra Francesc Moner, an extraordinarily talented Catalan writer of the late Middle Ages. After sampling Moner's pithy renditions of Seneca's sententious rhetoric, this essay delves into Moner's assimilation of the salient topics and motifs that distinguish the Stoic phiIosophical system of Senecan vintage. The essay takes into account, particularly, some points of coincidence between Moner's senequismo and that of Ausiàs March, the incomfarable Valencian poet of the first half of the fifteenth century. An analysis o these coincidences suggests that Moner inherits from March a keen sensitivity to the metaphysical bond between the literary text as an icon of subjectivity and the moment-to-moment unfolding of human existence.