The Perfect Wife: read in Spanish (C2)
Read Fray Luis de León’s La perfecta casada in Spanish. Level C2: a 16th-century moral treatise in long periods, with instant word translation.
La perfecta casada (Fray Luis de León)
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What you'll learn
Long periods and subordinate clauses, 16th-century Spanish forms and spelling, biblical and moral vocabulary, Spanish Renaissance prose
This article contains the full text of La perfecta casada (1583), Fray Luis de León’s commentary on Proverbs 31 and on the duties of a married woman, in the 1898 Barcelona edition. It is a classic of Spanish Renaissance prose, and its views on women belong to its time. Level C2 suits readers who can follow sentences of 40 words or more. You will meet the argumentative vocabulary of the 16th century and its long, balanced periods.
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