title: Pero Mexía and the otium of varied reading
creator: Folger, Robert
subject: ddc-860
subject: 860 Spanish and Portuguese literatures
description: Otium (leisure), idleness ( ociosidad ) and labor ( negocio / trabajo ) are central categories in Pedro Mexía’s Silva de varia lección (1540), one of the most influential and popular miscellanea of the Early Modern Period, in Spain and Europe. In his work we see the breakdown of the opposition of ocio and negocio in the context of a new aristocratic ideology. Mexía’s reflections on leisure and intellectual labor shed new light on the nature of the mental sufferings of Cervantes’s Don Quijote, and contemporaries’ views of the hidalgo ’s favorite pastime: reading.
publisher: de Gruyter
date: 2019
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/36544/1/10.1515_iber-2019-0014.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00036544
identifier: https://doi.org/10.1515/iber-2019-0014
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-365444
identifier:   Folger, Robert  (2019) Pero Mexía and the otium of varied reading.  Iberoromania, 2019 (90).  pp. 117-134.  ISSN 0019-0993 (Druck-Ausg.); 1865-9039 (Online-Ausg.)     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/36544/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng