{"product_id":"seneca-and-celestina-cambridge-iberian-and-latin-american-studies-0521121183","title":"Seneca and Celestina (Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521121183\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fothergill-Payne, Louise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the reason and intent behind the many Senecan and pseudo-Senecan quotations in Fernando de Rojas' masterpiece Celestina (1499), which enjoyed enormous popularity in sixteenth-century Europe. The author considers the importance attached to Senecan thought in the oral, scholarly and literary traditions of fifteenth-century Spain and demonstrates how readers' tastes and sensibilities were shaped by it. The main themes of Celestina, such as self-seeking friendship and love, pleasure and sorrow, gifts and riches, greed, suicide and death, are shown to be rooted in this intellectual background. The Senecan tradition, albeit treated in a satirical vein, is also seen as underlying the later additions and interpolations to the text, with a shift towards Seneca's tragedies in response to changes in fashion; Professor Fothergill-Payne reveals that even the Petrarchan quotations in Celestina have Senecan sources. Seneca and Celestina thus offers a fresh perspective on the literary and intellectual sources that shaped this famous book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51940038574368,"sku":"NEW0521121183","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/seneca-and-celestina-cambridge-iberian-and-latin-american-studies-0521121183","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}