Diego Lopez de Cortegana, Translator of Erasmus and Piccolomini

• In Event: Erasmus

Abstract

Diego Lopez de Cortegana is one of the paradoxical figures of the Spanish Renaissance. A member of the Seville clergy, he was an active inquisitor and persecutor of people accused of crypto-Judaism, but also a humanist and translator of Apuleius, Erasmus, and Piccolomini (Pope Pius II). This paper will examine the latter two translations, including paratexts, and place them in the context of Cortegana's career.

Author

• Ignacio Navarrete, University of California, Berkeley