Claves para la historia de un cultismo “honesto”. I. Antigüedad y Edad Media

Abstract

Honestum represents one of the most important moral and esthetic terms in the whole latin literature. Starting with its Cicero’s use to traduce to latin the complex greek concept kκαλóν, present in Plato, Aristotle and the stoical philosophers, this paper studies its use by the main christian medieval authors, and, especially, its presence in two of the biggest Aristotle and Plato’s translators, Leonardo Bruni and Marsilio Ficino, and also the impact of both’s works in the diferent values that the term «honesto» took inside the castilian literature. The first part of the paper covers from the Antiquity till the Middle Ages.