CLENARD (Nicolas).

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CLENARD (Nicolas).
Epistolarum libri duo. Anvers, Christophe Plantin, 1566. 2 parts in one volume in-8, blond calf, double fillet, spine decorated (Binding from the 18th century). Dannenfeldt, "The Renaissance Humanists and the Knowledge of Arabic", in Studies in the Renaissance, vol. 2 (1955), pp. 96-117. Pretty Plantinian edition of the letters written by the author during a trip to Granada and Morocco to study Islamic society and search for Koranic manuscripts. Nicolas Clénard (1495-1542), a Flemish humanist and pedagogue, learned Arabic on his own from texts by Avicenna, translations by Galen and Hippocrates, but above all from reading Bishop Agostino Giustiniani's Psalterium Nebiense. In search of masters and texts, he travelled to the Iberian Peninsula in the company of Ferdinand Columbus, the son of the famous discoverer. He taught Greek in Salamanca, became in Évora the preceptor of the infantile cardinal D. Henrique of Portugal, then spent a long time in Morocco before dying in Granada, the last bastion of Arab culture in the West. Like Guillaume Postel, Clénard had conceived a project for the Christianisation of Muslim peoples by peaceful means based on knowledge of their language and culture. Dos refait.
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