Juan Luis Vives ¿animal anfibio?
ISSN: 1889-1128
Year of publication: 2011
Issue Title: "Más allá de los signos": Homenaje a Jaime Siles
Issue: 4
Pages: 115-120
Type: Article
More publications in: Liburna
Abstract
This article attempts to explain why Erasmus of Rotterdam described Juan Luis Vives as an ―amphibious animal‖ and referred to him as Mercury and, above all, why Vives felt uncomfortable with these descriptions. It speculates, in addition, that this whole issue contains a possible allusion to the Dialogue between Mer-cury and Charon, a different conception of the calling of the writer.