Abstract

ESPINO MARTIN, Javier. From Europe to America: The Latin of Nebrija, “Partner of the Empire”, between Spain and Novohispanic Mexico. Nova tellus [online]. 2023, vol.41, n.2, pp.143-184.  Epub Oct 02, 2023. ISSN 0185-3058.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2023.2.41.2/00x38s006.

In this study we want to illustrate how the teaching of the Latin language became the symbol of the imperial expansionist energy of Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries, and in its evangelizing propagation to the newly discovered territories of America. Spanish was not so much the “companion of the empire”, but rather Latin, with Castilian as a partner language. Latin was taught, fundamentally, through the grammatical work of Elio Antonio de Nebrija, so we intend to make a historiographical and linguistic overview of the editions of the Introductiones Latinae from its origins according to medieval and late-medieval grammar models until the last recasting, which will be made official as the Royal Art, by royal decree of Felipe II in 1598. Its educational and ideological influence will configure the grammars of the Amerindian languages ​​of all the Viceroyalties. We will pay particular attention to those of New Spain, which, due to its linguistic diversity and wealth of resources, became the most important viceroyalty of the Spanish crown.

Keywords : Nebrija; Latin Grammar; Political and Didactic Symbol; Historiographical and Linguistic Tour; Editions of Spain and America.

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