Browsing by Subject "Heroic epistle"

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    El poema de Juan Segundo en respuesta a la epístola de Francesco Maria Molza sobre Catalina de Aragón
    (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2025-12-18) Ruiz Sánchez, María; Filología Clásica; Facultad de Letras
    Within the genre of the heroic epistle, the figures of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon aroused special interest in Renaissance authors. In one of these compositions entitled Ad Henricum Britanniae regem uxoris repudiatae nomine, composed around 1534 by Francesco Maria Molza (1489-1544), Catherine of Aragon addresses her husband Henry VIII who has abandoned her to remarry Anne Boleyn. Shortly after, the poet Johannes Secundus (1511-1536) would compose an epistle addressed by Henry to Catherine (Ad Catharinam Reginam Angliae, nomine Regis Henrici VIII conscripta a Io. Secundo) in response to the one written previously by Molza. We propose to analyze and translate the epistle of Johannes Secundus trying to show the literary game articulated around a fictional poetics, where the conventions of the genre are present with a studied deployment of rhetoric.
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    La Heroida de Francesco Mario Molza sobre Catalina de Aragón y Enrique VIII
    (Universidade de Aveiro, 2024-10-22) Ruiz Sánchez, María; Filología Clásica
    The heroic epistle was used as a literary model by Renaissance authors. Heroic themes are now replaced by national themes. The same thing happens in neo-Latin literature. An interesting example given the relevance of the characters are the epistles about the history of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII. In one of them titled Ad Henricum Britanniae regem uxoris repudiatae nomine, composed around 1534 by Francesco Maria Molza (1489-1544), Catherine of Aragon, as an abandoned heroine, accuses her husband Henry VIII. The author does not resort to a historical event from the past but to something that has just happened, the king’s betrayal of his wife and the break with the Church of Rome. In this work we study Molza’s letter, highlighting the Italian poet’s allusive use of sources, mainly from the Aeneid and Ovid, to understand the personality and motivations of the characters. ------------