A humanist key from the mid-15th century to the humanism of the Crown of Aragon from the late 14th century: Ferran Valenti and the Preface to his translation of Cicero’s Paradoxa

In this article I study the Preface by Ferran Valentí to his own translation into Catalan of Cicero’s Paradoxa. Ferran Valentí was a humanist from Majorca, author in Catalan language who earned a Low Degree at the University of Bologna and who declared himself a devoted “son and pupil” of humanist Leonardo Bruni. Valentí made an analysis of the humanistic Canon in mid-15th century, including troubadours, Dante, Lullius, Latin literature classics and several Catalan authors, such as Bernat Metge. This proves that humanism was a true trend in the Crown of Aragon from the 2nd half of the 14th Century on.Artículo en el seno del centro y proyectos de investigación siguientes: ISIC-IVITRA (ISIC/2012/022), PROMETEO/2009/042; FFI2012-37103; GITE-09009-UA; VIGROB-125