Jesuit Tradition in the Elucidata grammatica by Vargas

Abstract

Juan García de Vargas, prefect and teacher of Latin grammar and rhetoric in the Jesuit Imperial College in Madrid, publishes in 1711 a Latin grammar titled Elucidata Grammatica ad strictam Artem redacta. With it Vargas tries to complete and to develop the grammars of the Fathers Juan Luis de la Cerda and Álvarez and, especially, to support the methods of these Jesuit grammars, rejecting the new rational airs that dominate Europe after the success of the Sanctius' Minerva there.

Keywords

• vargas
• latin grammar
• elucidata
• jesuits
• brocense