ABSTRACT
During the course of the ensuing century, Iberia embarked upon a golden century of political unification, expansion, and artistic creativity. Diego de Burgos portrayed Santillana as the man who liberated these Spains of ours from blind ignorance, illuminating them with light. Cartagena's eclectic programme for the education of the aristocracy is expounded in his Latin Epistola ad Petrum Fernandi de Velasco, addressed to the Count of Haro. Nebrijas Repetitio secunda represented a return to the debate addressed in Cartagenas Declinationes, set in the Salamanca of half a century before. For a brief summary on Nebrijas work in the field of Spanish grammar see the editors introduction to Antonio de Nebrija, Gramtica de la lengua castellana. In Iberia, the transition from the humanism of the manuscript-seekers and grammarians to the hybrid style called High Renaissance is clearly illustrated in vernacular literature. The crisis and decline of humanism is dramatically exhibited by the fate of Erasmianism.
