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Título del texto editado:
Character of Lebrixa
Autor del texto editado:
Hallam, Henry
Título de la obra:
Introduction to the Literature of Europe: In the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,
Vol. 1
Autor de la obra:
Hallam, Henry
Edición:
London:
John Murray,
1837
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Transcriptor: Cristina Moya García
Sevilla, 02 Agosto 2022
Lebrixa,
usually styled
Nebrissensis,
became
to
Spain
what
Valla
was to
Italy,
Erasmus to Germany, or Budæus to
France.
After a
residence
of ten years in Italy, during which he had stored his mind with various kinds of
knowledge,
he returned home, in
1473,
by the
advice
of the
younger
Philelphus and Hermolaus
Barbarus,
with the view of promoting classical literature in his native
country.
Hitherto the
revival
of
letters
in Spain was confined to a few
inquisitive
individuals, and had not reached the schools and universities, whose
teachers
continued to teach a
barbarous
jargon under the name of
Latin,
into which they initiated the youth by means of a rude system of grammar, rendered unintelligible, in some in stances, by a preposterous intermixture of the most abstruse questions in metaphysics. By the
lectures
which he read in the
universities
of Seville, Salamanca, and Alcala, and by the institutes which he
published
on Castilian, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew grammar, Lebrixa
contributed
in a wonderful degree to expel barbarism from the seats of education, and to diffuse a taste for elegant and useful studies among his countrymen. His
improvements
were warmly opposed by the
monks,
who had engrossed the art of teaching, and who, unable to bear the light themselves, wished to prevent all others from seeing it; but, enjoying the
support
of persons of high authority, he disregarded their selfish and ignorant
outcries.
Lebrixa continued to an
advanced
age to support the literary
reputation
of his native
country.
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