Disimular por aforismos: La Doctrina política civil de Eugenio de Narbona

Abstract

In 1604 Eugenio de Narbona publishes an ambiguous and controverted book that goes quickly under the examination of the Spanish Inquisition and it is retired. The almost three hundred tacitian inspirated aphorisms collected on this little practical government manual were unacceptable because of its format, which could lead to heterodoxal and subversive interpretations, in addition to be wrote in the common use language, the spanish, with incontrolable consecuences. In 1621, during the climax of the political discussion between the new politics based on an autonomous politic technique and the traditional religious monarchy, Narbona reprints his work with some variations and better fate. Some people affirm that this minor text has no literary value except from the testimonial, but this article shows there are some arguments to defend a strong relationship between autor’s will, the content of the book and the specific discursive style chosen by Narbona, a very well calculated artifice.

Keywords

• Narbona Eugenio de
• aphorisms
• tacitism
• Spanish Golden Age
• Spanish Inquisition