“"De litteris Latinis Latine docendis: El comentario humanístico de textos clásicos y su aplicación didáctica en la actualidad”

Resumen

This article discusses the application in the classroom of the Latin paraphrasis and the humanistic commentaries and relates this ancient instructional resource to the modern concept of“linguistic mediation”. The first commentary published in Spain in 1504 on Pliny the Elder’sNaturalis Historia by Lucius Flaminius Siculus is examined along with some additionalstatements on Pliny’s work from the commentary by Martinho de Figueiredo published laterin Lisbon (1529). Pliny’s Naturalis Historia, which was used in Europe during the Renaissance as a university textbook, was very helpful to students, as Flaminius in Salamanca andFigueiredo in Lisbon explained with remarkable success in the Latin language to audiences ofscholars and students.