Ensayos literarios y filosóficos: franceses, alemanes e italianos
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- inglés
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- Obra completa
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- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
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- ~160.000 palabras · 742 pasajes
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- APAMichel de Montaigne. (n.d.). Literary and Philosophical Essays French, German and Italian [Ensayos literarios y filosóficos: franceses, alemanes e italianos]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/michel-de-montaigne/literary-and-philosophical-essays-french-german-and-italian
- MLAMichel de Montaigne. Literary and Philosophical Essays French, German and Italian [Ensayos literarios y filosóficos: franceses, alemanes e italianos]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/michel-de-montaigne/literary-and-philosophical-essays-french-german-and-italian.
- ChicagoMichel de Montaigne. Literary and Philosophical Essays French, German and Italian [Ensayos literarios y filosóficos: franceses, alemanes e italianos]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/michel-de-montaigne/literary-and-philosophical-essays-french-german-and-italian.
Referencia de la edición que reproduce SigPhi: SigPhi es su reproducción digital, no el editor. El año de la edición no consta en los metadatos (por eso «n.d.») y el traductor solo aparece cuando consta.
De qué trata
Una selección de los «Ensayos» de Montaigne dentro de una antología que reúne autores franceses, alemanes e italianos: no es la obra completa.
Contexto e historia
Conviene saberlo antes de citar. Los «Ensayos» son tres libros y más de cien capítulos que Montaigne fue reescribiendo y ampliando durante veinte años, y lo que hay aquí es una selección hecha por un editor para una colección de clásicos universales. Dicho esto, lo que se lee es Montaigne, y Montaigne es el hombre que inventó una manera de escribir: tomarse a sí mismo como objeto de estudio sin pretender sacar de ello ninguna doctrina, cambiar de opinión dentro de una misma página y dejar ahí las dos, y terminar cada tema confesando que no sabe bastante. Su pregunta —«¿qué sé yo?»— lleva a un escepticismo que no paraliza sino que enseña a vivir. Si lo que se quiere es citar a Montaigne, vale la pena buscar una edición completa e indicar libro y capítulo.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra 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.…