Pedro Alfonso (Moises Sefardí). Bestiary. Bestiary Aragones. Architecture, stone, Romanesque Gothic Renaissance painting sculpture nature.

Supposed portrait of Pedro Alfonso
Supuesto retrato de Pedro Alfonso

Pedro Alfonso is the Christian name by which the former Jewish sage Moisés Sefardí is known.
This Huesca convert included in his famous work Discipline clericalis, more than thirty traditional Arabic and Hebrew narratives, thus serving as a bridge between Eastern and European culture through Aragon.

His work being written in Latin reached a great diffusion, to which his travels and stays in England and France also contributed.

The very orientation of Disciplina clericalis, "clericalis" in the sense of directed to those who want to be cultured, not exclusively clergymen. And "Disciplina" in the sense of methodology or procedure to achieve this objective, which in this book consists of a series of narrations or stories, stories we would say now, that by taking an example of morality they teach us the right path.

Among these moralizing narratives are several of animals. The fundamental thing, for our interest, is that each animal appears endowed with virtues or defects that serve to set a moralizing example to the narrative.

These stories to be effective must attract attention and make us pay attention to them, that is why they are entertaining and varied and with the use of the strange or anecdotal as an intentional narrative resource.

These resources: "Exemplum moral", entertaining narration, virtues associated with each animal, popular narratives but attributed to quality authors (wise men, saints, etc.), etc. they would be developed in the Bestiaries of later centuries.

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Also Aragon enjoys a diverse and varied Nature where passing by plants, animals, or landscapes we can arrive at a fantastic bestiario that lives in its monuments.

The information will not be complete without a stroll by its three provinces: Zaragoza, Teruel and Huesca ans us varied Regions, with shutdown in some of its spectacular landscapes like Ordesa or the Moncayo or by opposition in the valle of the Ebro.

The "Naturaleza de Aragon" project is an extension of the Aragón project is like that, and tries to collect and relate all possible types of documentary information about Aragon: texts, books, articles, maps, illustrations, photographs, narrations, etc., and proceed to its publication and diffusion.

Pedro Alfonso (Moises Sefardí). Bestiary.

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