title: The Presence and Functionality of Comic Latin Sources in Some Letters by Thomas More
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metadata.value: Cabrillana, Concepción
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-02-21T19:25:24Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-02-21T19:25:24Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Concepción Cabrillana. The Presence and Functionality of Comic Latin Sources in Some Letters by Thomas More. Philologia Classica 2021, 16 (2), 277–289.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2021.209
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35194
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Detailed examination of the presence and use of Latin comic sources in Thomas More’s work has
  been the subject of little systematic investigation. Among other aspects, the variety of perspectives
  from which these sources are handled in More’s writings, and the diverse functionality that
  they are endowed with, make this analysis somewhat complex. The object of the article will be
  restricted to the analysis of some key mentions of Latin comic sources in a particularly significant
  letter from the point of view of More’s defense of humanism, such as the letter to Maarten van
  Dorp (1515). In addition, the density of allusions to Plautus and Terence is shown in a set of letters
  and, as a means of possible contrast, in More’s epigrammatic texts; an explanatory hypothesis
  of this presence is also proposed. The analysis contextualizes the place of the letter in which the
  aforementioned allusions occur, and examines them comparatively. It is suggested that the main
  functionality of the introduction of references to Latin comedians is to provide eloquent support
  to establish a significant part of the refutatio of the letter; these references make it possible to shed
  light on certain inconsistencies in the conduct of the addressee, which weaken the objectivity of
  his points of view and the correctness of his behavior: hence the Morean criticism of Dorp.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 16; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latin comedy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Plautus
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Terence
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: letters
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: epigrams
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Thomas More
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Maarten van Dorp
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Gerard Geldenhouwer of Nijmegen
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: humanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Renaissance
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Presence and Functionality of Comic Latin Sources in Some Letters by Thomas More
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metadata.value: Article
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