La consideración de la mujer en el Renacimiento a través de los florilegios latinos del siglo XVI

Abstract

This thesis examines the construction of womanhood in sixteenth-century Latin florilegia and its connection with Renaissance Christian moral discourse. The first article addresses marriage across four florilegia (Mayer 1534, Estienne 1534, Mirandola 1538, Schönborn 1565), showing how curated and reframed classical excerpta shape a conjugal pedagogy around mulier bona, mulier casta, and mulier dotata. The second article explores attire and cosmetics in five anthologies (Murmelio, Mayer, Estienne, Mirandola, Schönborn), tracing two dominant strands, critique of adornment and praise of ‘naturalness’, and demonstrating the persistence of classical topoi within new courtly and religious frames. The third article compares Mulier and Matrimonium entries of André Rodrigues de Évora’s Sententiae (1557) with Conrad Gesner’s bilingual edition of Stobaeus (1543), establishing textual dependence, rearrangements, and semantic shifts (e.g., homo/uir). Taken together, the thesis argues that florilegia function as editorial-pedagogical devices mediating the Renaissance reception of Antiquity, adapting classical authority to regulate female conduct. Methodologically, it combines philological and paratextual analysis with systematic lexical searches and digital tools to map patterns of selection, translation, and moralization.