Sicily and Sicilians in Cataldo Parisio Siculo’s ‘Epistole et Orationes quedam Cataldi Siculi’

Abstract

This article aims to analize and comment a collection of 16 letters that are part of the Sicilian humanist Cataldo Parisio Siculo’s work Epistole et Orationes quedam Cataldi Siculi. These letters are included in the first part of this book, printed on 21 February 1500 in Lisbon (Portugal). The selection criteria about these texts was their relation with Sicily, both from the thematic point of view and from the recipients’ common origin

Keywords

• cataldo parisio siculo
• humanismo
• portugal
• sicilia