Assaigs literaris i filosòfics: francesos, alemanys i italians
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- anglès
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- Obra completa
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- Escrita per l'autor
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Cita aquesta obra
- APAMichel de Montaigne. (n.d.). Literary and Philosophical Essays French, German and Italian [Assaigs literaris i filosòfics: francesos, alemanys i italians]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/michel-de-montaigne/literary-and-philosophical-essays-french-german-and-italian
- MLAMichel de Montaigne. Literary and Philosophical Essays French, German and Italian [Assaigs literaris i filosòfics: francesos, alemanys i italians]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/michel-de-montaigne/literary-and-philosophical-essays-french-german-and-italian.
- ChicagoMichel de Montaigne. Literary and Philosophical Essays French, German and Italian [Assaigs literaris i filosòfics: francesos, alemanys i italians]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/michel-de-montaigne/literary-and-philosophical-essays-french-german-and-italian.
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De què tracta
Una seleccio dels «Assaigs» de Montaigne dins una antologia que reuneix autors francesos, alemanys i italians: no es l'obra completa.
Context i història
Convé saber-ho abans de citar. Els «Assaigs» son tres llibres i mes de cent capitols que Montaigne va anar reescrivint i ampliant durant vint anys, i el que hi ha aqui es una tria feta per un editor per a una col·leccio de clàssics universals. Dit aixo, el que s'hi llegeix es Montaigne, i Montaigne es l'home que va inventar una manera d'escriure: prendre's a si mateix com a objecte d'estudi sense pretendre'n treure cap doctrina, canviar d'opinio dins d'una mateixa pagina i deixar-hi les dues, i acabar cada tema confessant que no en sap prou. La seva pregunta —«que sé jo?»— porta a un escepticisme que no paralitza sino que ensenya a viure. Si el que es vol es citar Montaigne, val la pena buscar una edicio completa i indicar llibre i capitol.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
purpose: who being taken by Cyrus, and by him condemned to die, upon the point of his execution, cried out aloud: "Oh Solon, Solon!" which words of his, being reported to Cyrus, who inquiring what he meant by them, told him, hee now at his owne cost verified the advertisement Solon had before times given him; which was, that no man, what cheerefull and blandishing countenance soever fortune shewed them, may rightly deeme himselfe happie, till such time as he have passed the last day of his life, by reason of the uncertaintie and vicissitude of humane things, which by a very light motive, and slight occasion, are often changed from one to another cleane contrary state and degree. And therefore Agesilaus answered one that counted the King of Persia happy, because being very young, he had gotten the garland of so mightie and great a dominion: "yea but said he, Priam at the same age was not unhappy." Of the Kings of Macedon that succeeded Alexander the Great, some were afterward seene to become Joyners and Scriveners at Rome: and of Tyrants of Sicilie, Schoolemasters at Corinth. One that had conquered halfe the world, and been Emperour over so many, Armies, became an humble and miserable suter to the raskally officers of a king of AEgypte: At so high a rate did that great Pompey purchase the irkesome prolonging of his life but for five or six moneths. And in our fathers daies, Lodowicke Sforze, tenth Duke of Millane, under whom the State of Italic had so long beene turmoiled and shaken, was seene to die a wretched prisoner at Loches in France, but not till he had lived and lingered ten yeares in thraldom, which was the worst of his bargaine. The fairest Queene, wife to the greatest King of Christendome, was she not lately scene to die by the hands of an executioner? Oh unworthie and barbarous cruelties And a thousand such examples.…