Aprendre a escriure amb Ciceró: un exemple de pràctica epistolar del segle xv // Learning to Write with Cicero: An Example of Fifteenth-Century Epistolary Practice
Abstract
Among the manuscripts from the archive of the Hospital de la Santa Creu held in the Biblioteca de Catalunya, volume AH 952/10 contains a copy of documents related to the executorship of Estefania Carròs i de Mur, who died in Barcelona in 1511. At the end of the fifteenth century, someone wrote a draft of a fictional letter in Catalan on the first folio of the volume. This letter, which is supposedly written by Scipio Africanus and addressed to Cicero, is an early witness of a practice of letter-writing —which was very common in sixteenth-century education— and an example of the prominence of Cicero not only as a rhetorical model for letter-writing but also as a moral one. This note presents the text and places it in its literary and historical context, and also provides an edition of the letter.
Keywords: Cicero, Scipio Africanus, Carròs Family, Letter-Writing, Rhetoric, Fifteenth-century Teaching
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