Loci communes en la literatura emblemática Beatus ante obitum nemo y Memento mori en los Emblemata centum regio politica

Abstract

Juan de Solórzano Pereira, internationally better known by his great juridical work, wrote in his latter years Emblemata centum regio politica, which make him creditor of an exceptional status in the neo- Latin Emblematic Literature. The work appears as a university manual, attractive and pedagogic, of loci communes (graphical and literary), that stocks up both from the de regimine principum genre and the emblematic genre. Among these loci communes intended to remind the prince, and therefore all men, his condition of mortal and to move him away from the sin of pride, there are two of longer tradition, Beatus ante obitum nemo (argument of the emblem XCIX) and Memento mori (argument of the emblem C). Both arguments will be object of exhaustive analysis in the present paper.