La vida de santa Teresa de Jesús, de la Orden de Nuestra Señora del Carmen
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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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- ~170.000 palabras · 814 pasajes
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- APATeresa de Ávila. (n.d.). The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel [La vida de santa Teresa de Jesús, de la Orden de Nuestra Señora del Carmen]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/teresa-of-avila/the-life-of-st-teresa-of-jesus-of-the-order-of-our-lady-of-carmel
- MLATeresa de Ávila. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel [La vida de santa Teresa de Jesús, de la Orden de Nuestra Señora del Carmen]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/teresa-of-avila/the-life-of-st-teresa-of-jesus-of-the-order-of-our-lady-of-carmel.
- ChicagoTeresa de Ávila. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel [La vida de santa Teresa de Jesús, de la Orden de Nuestra Señora del Carmen]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/teresa-of-avila/the-life-of-st-teresa-of-jesus-of-the-order-of-our-lady-of-carmel.
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
El libro de la vida de Teresa de Ávila: la infancia, los años de convento sin fervor, la conversión tardía, la oración y las visiones.
Contexto e historia
Conviene saber por qué está escrito: no por voluntad suya sino por mandato de sus confesores, que le pidieron que pusiera por escrito lo que le ocurría para poder examinarlo. Eso explica el tono —se justifica constantemente, se rebaja, acepta que la corrijan— y explica también que el manuscrito fuera a parar a la Inquisición, que lo retuvo años. La prosa es de las mejores del castellano del siglo XVI precisamente porque no quiere ser literaria: escribe como habla, para hacerse entender de quien la juzgaba.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
was very much given to the reading of good books; and so he had them in Spanish, that his children might read them. These books, with my mother's carefulness to make us say our prayers, and to bring us up devout to our Lady and to certain Saints, began to make me think seriously when I was, I believe, six or seven years old. It helped me, too, that I never saw my father and mother respect anything but goodness. They were very good themselves. My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children. He used to say that he could not endure the pain of seeing that she was not free. He was a man of great truthfulness; nobody ever heard him swear or speak ill of any one; his life was most pure. 2. My mother also was a woman of great goodness, and her life was spent in great infirmities. She was singularly pure in all her ways. Though possessing great beauty, yet was it never known that she gave reason to suspect that she made any account whatever of it; for, though she was only three-and-thirty years of age when she died, her apparel was already that of a woman advanced in years. She was very calm, and had great sense. The sufferings she went through during her life were grievous, her death most Christian. [1] 3. We were three sisters and nine brothers. [2] All, by the mercy of God, resembled their parents in goodness except myself, though I was the most cherished of my father. And, before I began to offend God, I think he had some reason,--for I am filled with sorrow whenever I think of the good desires with which our Lord inspired me, and what a wretched use I made of them. Besides, my brothers never in any way hindered me in the service of God. 4.…