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The author stresses the importance of the Borja family (mainly referring to the popes Calixto III and Alexandre VI) in the Italian as well as the European cultural and political context of the second half of the xvth century, and the beginning of the xvith century.

Abstract

The author argues that in his version of Séneca's De providentia, as indeed in other of his versions, Canals does not show any evidence of having assimilated the ideological tenets of the Humanism and the Renaissance. On the contrary: for him classical sources are merely used as [...]