Relatos de perdón y sus narradores en la Francia del siglo XVI
According to the categories of rhetoricians and literary theorists of the Renaissance, the letter of supplication was a mixed genre: a judicial plea to persuade the king and the courts, a historical account of one's past actions, and a history.
I want to let the "fictional" aspects of these documents be the focus of analysis. By "fictional" I do not mean its falsified elements, but rather, using the other, broader sense of the root fingere, its forming, shaping, and molding elements: the elaboration of a narrative.
But the artifice of fiction did not necessarily provide falsehood to a story; it could well bring him verisimilitude or moral truth. The modeling or embellishment of a story did not necessarily mean falsification either. Where that line should be drawn was one of the creative controversies of the day. To look for the "fictitious" aspects of a letter of suppli...read more
