Author: Baltasar Gracián y MoralesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maxims
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Science of Success and the Art of Prudence
Author: Baltasar Gracián y MoralesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maxims
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Baltasar Gracián
Author: Virginia Ramos FosterPublisher: Irvington Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author: Oráculo manual, etc. The Courtier's Oracle; or, the Art of Prudence ... Done into English
Author: Baltasar Gracián y MoralesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Author: Baltasar Gracián y MoralesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781984051868
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
About The Author:Baltasar Graci�n y Morales, (8 January 1601 - 6 December 1658), better known as Baltasar Graci�n, was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragon). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Spanish: Or�culo Manual y Arte de Prudencia) is a book written in 1647 by Baltasar Graci�n y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracian. It is a collection of 300 maxims, each with a commentary, on various topics giving advice and guidance on how to live fully, advance socially, and be a better person, that became popular throughout Europe.
Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London)
Author: Nicolás Bas MartínPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004359524
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas examines the image of Spain in eighteenth-century Europe, and in Paris and London in particular. His material has been scoured from an exhaustive interrogation of the records of the book trade. He refers to booksellers’ catalogues, private collections, auctions, and other sources of information in order to reconstruct the country’s cultural image. Rarely have these sources been searched for Spanish books, and never have they been as exhaustively exploited as they are in Bas’ book. Both England and France were conversant with some very negative ideas about Spain. The Black Legend, dating back to the sixteenth century, condemned Spain as repressive and priest-ridden. Bas shows however, that an alternative, more sympathetic, vision ran parallel with these negative views. His bibliographical approach brings to light the Spanish books that were bought, sold and ultimately read. The impression thus obtained is likely to help us understand not only Spain’s past, but also something of its present.
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Author: Balthasar GracianPublisher:
ISBN: 9781520777269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Active Table of Contents!The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Spanish: Or�culo Manual y Arte de Prudencia) is a book written in 1647 by Baltasar Graci�n y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracian. It is a collection of 300 maxims, each with a commentary, on various topics giving advice and guidance on how to live fully, advance socially, and be a better person, that became popular throughout Europe.Baltasar Graci�n y Morales; 8 January 1601 - 6 December 1658), better known as Baltasar Graci�n, was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragon). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.The son of a doctor, in his childhood Graci�n lived with his uncle, who was a priest. He studied at a Jesuit school in 1621 and 1623 and theology in Zaragoza. He was ordained in 1627 and took his final vows in 1635.He assumed the vows of the Jesuits in 1633 and dedicated himself to teaching in various Jesuit schools. He spent time in Huesca, where he befriended the local scholar Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, who helped him achieve an important milestone in his intellectual upbringing. He acquired fame as a preacher, although some of his oratorical displays, such as reading a letter sent from Hell from the pulpit, were frowned upon by his superiors. He was named Rector of the Jesuit College of Tarragona and wrote works proposing models for courtly conduct such as El h�roe (The Hero), El pol�tico (The Politician), and El discreto (The Discreet One). During the Spanish war with Catalonia and France, he was chaplain of the army that liberated Lleida in 1646.In 1651, he published the first part of the Critic�n (Faultfinder) without the permission of his superiors, whom he disobeyed repeatedly. This attracted the Society's displeasure. Ignoring the reprimands, he published the second part of Critic�n in 1657, as a result was sanctioned and exiled to Graus at the beginning of 1658. Soon Gracian wrote to apply for membership in another religious order. His demand was not met, but his sanction was eased off: in April 1658 he was sent to several minor positions under the College of Tarazona. His physical decline prevented him from attending the provincial congregation of Calatayud and on 6 December 1658 Gracian died in Tarazona, near Zaragoza in the Kingdom of Aragon.Graci�n is the most representative writer of the Spanish Baroque literary style known as Conceptismo (Conceptism), of which he was the most important theoretician; his Agudeza y arte de ingenio (Wit and the Art of Inventiveness) is at once a poetic, a rhetoric and an anthology of the conceptist style.The Aragonese village where he was born, Belmonte de Calatayud, changed its name to Belmonte de Graci�n in his honour.
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Author: Baltasar Gracián y MoralesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maxims
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
How to Use Your Enemies
Author: Baltasar GraciánPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141398280
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracián shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658). Gracián's work is available in Penguin Classics in The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence.