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Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Residencia de Estudiantes e ILE.
The next year we will be commemorating the fifth centenary of the death of Antonio de Nebrija (July 1522). On the occasion of this anniversary we propose a meeting to reflect on the circulation of science and culture in two moments emblematic: the Renaissance and our days.
Antonio de Nebrija is widely known for being the author of the Grammar about la lengua castellana (1492). But his life trajectory and intellectual exceeds that narrow framework, both because of his training in astronomy and cosmography (in addition to grammar and rhetoric), and his stay of 5 years in Italy, as for his career post devoted to terminological problems of disciplines such as Medicine or Law and their participation in the movement that led to the Bible Polyglot Complutense.
As was the case with all the scholars of the Renaissance, travel, contacts, correspondence, and the circulation of books favoured by the printing press were the elements that kept him in contact with the science of his time, marked by the lingua franca of Latin.
This picture has interesting resonances with our epoch, in which the cooperation between individuals and libraries distant is articulated through digital networks, in a linguistic universe dominated by the English language. This cooperation, which has been consubstantial with the Internet from its very first moments, it is still basic to the circulation of scientific knowledge.
This project has received the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sport
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