Técnica vocal y retórica de los afectos en el hermetismo espiritualista del siglo xvii. El artículo XII De oris colloquutione de Juan Caramuel

• Main Author: Lucía Díaz Marroquín
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Presses universitaires du Mirail 2008-11-01
• Series: Criticón
• Subjects: Caramuel; Juan de; Counter Reformation; hermetism; performance; reason
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/criticon/11454

The Spaniard Juan Caramuel was one of the seventeenth century’s rationalist authors who, as Athanasius Kircher, René Descartes or Marin Mersenne, his interlocutors and correspondents, inherited the humanist Platonic and Hermetic knowledge, as well as the conventional scholastic Aristotelian authority, and surpassed these by means of pre-scientific Reason. His interests went from mathematics to architecture, but, by the end of his life, when he published his Trismegistus Theologicus, he had already focused on the possibilities of rhetorical expression in hierarchical contexts, including voice, gesture and strategic silence. This article analyses one of the chapters of this pre-encyclopaedic treatise, where he studies some aspects of the vocal actio in his polyglot and multi-referential style, quoting Virgil or Cicero as well as his Spanish contemporaries Tirso de Molina or Lope de Vega.