by Alfonso de Valdés · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432039652
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«Diálogo de Mercurio y Carón» is the satirical dialogue by Alfonso de Valdés, published by Planeta in paperback (195 pages, in Spanish).
Dialogue between Mercury and Charon in which, imitating Lucian of Samosata, sixteenth-century society is reviewed with satire. In two parts, a preacher, a bishop, a king and a hypocrite parade by, and prelates and laypeople are portrayed, with a defense of Emperor Charles I's actions against his detractors.
Work originally published in 1529. This 1987 edition is the second edition in Clásicos universales Planeta, Autores hispánicos series, with introduction and notes by Rosa Navarro Durán.
For readers of Spanish classics interested in humanism, Renaissance satire and the work of Erasmus.
Alfonso de Valdés was a Spanish humanist, who worked at the chancellery of the Emperor Charles V. He was the twin brother of Juan de Valdés.
