The translation into Castilian of Brunetto Latini “Li Livres dou Tresor” at the court of Sancho IV (1284-1295): Some remarks on the reception of Aristotle’s “Nichomachean Ethics”
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.2010.v40.i2.329Keywords:
Book of treasure, Sancho IV, Brunetto Latini, Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle, eudaimonia or happinessAbstract
This article focuses on the translation into Castilian of Brunetto Latini’s Li Livres dou tresor. This translation was ordered by king Sancho IV around 1293, and included the first extant abridged version of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Summa Alexandrinorum) in Castilian. Nevertheless, the Aristotelian ethics would not become popular until the fifteenth century. This article aims at qualifying the initial reception of Libro del tesoro. Therefore, the interpolations of short explanations in the translation to Castilian are analyzed. It is observed that the effort to clarify the meaning of some concepts is evident in the chapters on ethics and does impinge on the Aristotelian notion of happiness or eudaimonia.
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