Publication: Americanismos en la Crónica de la Nueva España de Francisco Cervantes de Salazar
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2018-10-03
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El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo estudiar la presencia de americanismos en la Crónica de la Nueva España de Francisco Cervantes de Salazar.La figura de Cervantes de Salazar resulta de especial relevancia porque se trata de uno de los primeros humanistas que viaja a la Nueva España, donde llega a desempeñar numerosas ocupaciones, entre las que destaca el rectorado de la recién establecida Universidad de México o la canonjía de la catedral de México.En torno al año 1557, comienza a escribir una crónica de la conquista de México cuya redacción se alarga durante años y que nunca llegará a concluir.Hemos dedicado los primeros capítulos a analizar la figura del autor y su trayectoria vital y literaria. Aunque no hay demasiados datos sobre la vida de Cervantes de Salazar antes de su llegada a México, sabemos que estuvo al servicio de García de Loaysa, arzobispo de Sevilla y presidente del Consejo de Indias, lo que le permitió entrar en contacto con los españoles que retornaban desde las Indias a la Península. Esta circunstancia determinará la decisión de nuestro autor de abandonar la Península para siempre y comenzar una nueva vida en México a partir de 1551.En sus últimos años en España, llegó a publicar unas Obras, en las que glosaba unos opúsculos de otros humanistas, y desempeñó brevemente el puesto de profesor de Retórica en la recién creada Universidad de Osuna, un centro de estudios muy menor que no contaba con el prestigio de otras universidades como las de Salamanca o Alcalá. En cualquier caso, la experiencia de Osuna le sirvió después a nuestro autor para postularse como el primer rector de la nueva Universidad de México...
Francisco Cervantes de Salazar was born in Toledo around 1518 and diedin Mexico in 1575. He was one of the first humanists who went to the NewWorld, around the year of 1550. His life, therefore, was divided into two parts,the first in Spain, and the second in the recently conquered Mexico. The reasonswhy he travelled to Mexico to have a whole new life, are still not very clear, butthe fact remains that he was an exceptional man in the society of New Spain, asociety that was still trying to recover from the open wounds of the conquest. Hewas a humanist and a scholar, one of the few of his kind, in a city that was beingreconstructed from its ruins. Soon he became the rector of the University ofMexico, which had just been created a few months before.He was a very religious man, but also very ambitious. He studied Theologyand later tried vainly to promote himself to a new position in the church of NewSpain. Some letters said that he even tried to become a bishop, but the fact isthat he never got a main role in the hierarchy. We have some testimonies thatprove that he had some good friends who protected him, but he also hadrelentless enemies who wanted to destroy his hopes.We have divided our work into several chapters that seek to present acomplete portrayal of the humanist, and then we proceed to study his main workknown as Crónica de la Nueva España...
Francisco Cervantes de Salazar was born in Toledo around 1518 and diedin Mexico in 1575. He was one of the first humanists who went to the NewWorld, around the year of 1550. His life, therefore, was divided into two parts,the first in Spain, and the second in the recently conquered Mexico. The reasonswhy he travelled to Mexico to have a whole new life, are still not very clear, butthe fact remains that he was an exceptional man in the society of New Spain, asociety that was still trying to recover from the open wounds of the conquest. Hewas a humanist and a scholar, one of the few of his kind, in a city that was beingreconstructed from its ruins. Soon he became the rector of the University ofMexico, which had just been created a few months before.He was a very religious man, but also very ambitious. He studied Theologyand later tried vainly to promote himself to a new position in the church of NewSpain. Some letters said that he even tried to become a bishop, but the fact isthat he never got a main role in the hierarchy. We have some testimonies thatprove that he had some good friends who protected him, but he also hadrelentless enemies who wanted to destroy his hopes.We have divided our work into several chapters that seek to present acomplete portrayal of the humanist, and then we proceed to study his main workknown as Crónica de la Nueva España...
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Tesis de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, Departamento de Filología Española IV (Bibliografía Española y Literatura Hispanoamericana), leída el 21-06-2017