El "exilio del libro": una perspectiva desde la literatura erótica
The destiny suffered by Renaissance and Golden Age erotic works is an excellent example that shows the ways in which written thought has managed to survive the attempts directed at its destruction. The different forms of evasion in order to hide the delicate erotic contents can be compared to a form of exile, from where erotic literature has only recently come back. But the return from oblivion was a slow and not linear one. The attitude of society and investigation has been variable and has played a considerable role in the recovery of writings that had been sent away to exile ages ago by censorship.
Monkey Business in Carajicomedia: The Parody of Fray Ambrosio Montesino as "Fray Bugeo"
Carajicomedia, an anonymous parodic poem of 92 stanzas published in 1519, tells the story of Diego Fajardo, an old man who has lost his sexual potency and searches for its restoration. The poem is attributed to a fictional author called Fray Bugeo Montesino, but it is filtered through the hands of an anonymous glosser who claims to have “corrected” Carajicomedia. However, both putative authors are probably the creation of the same person. This paper reveals why that person attributes the poem to someone named Fray “Bugeo” Montesino. Carajicomedia begins with a letter to a “muy magnifico señor” describing the circumstances under which the glosser found the poem: “Como vn dia entre otros muchos oradores me hallase en la copiosa libreria del colegio del señor sant estrauagante / donde al presente resido leyendo vnos sermones del deuoto padre fray Bugeo montesino. Halle la presente obra que este Reuerendo padre copilo para su recreacion despues que corregio el Cartuxano” (Varo 98). Based on the information in this letter, scholars have rightly concluded that Fray Ambrosio Montesino (1444?1512 / 13) is the person parodized as Fray Bugeo. Besides sharing a common last name, Fray Ambrosio wrote several works that the poem attributes to Fray Bugeo. In 1502 / 1503, he published a translation of Landulphus of Saxony’s Vita Christi titled Vita cristi cartuxano romanaçado por fray Ambrosio, which was known as “el Cartuxano.” He also wrote some sermons that were later included in a 1525 edition of another of his translations, Epistolas y evangelios por todo el año (1512; Álvarez
Political Science Fiction
This text examines the close relationship between politics and science fiction and shows how much of the former is grounded in the latter. It is both an exploration of futuristic literature and a spectrum of ideas, from libertarianism to feminism.