Antonio de Nebrija y la recuperación del estoicismo.

Did Antonio de Nebrija participate in the recovery of Stoicism? This article documents in his commentary on Persius (1503) the presence of many of the principal and most genuine ideas of the Stoa: the separation between body and spirit, and, as a consequence, the differentiation between spiritual and earthly individuals; the contempt for opinio vulgi; the awareness of duties (officia) towards the State (respublica); the idea that just the wise is free and happy, and that the prize for virtue is happiness itself; the conception, as a consequence, of ethics as autonomous, etc. He often expresses these ideas as generally valid and personally assumed. The conclusion is that Nebrija effectively participated, as disseminator and vindicator, in the long process of recovering Stoicism that would mark the Modern Age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]