Abstract
Along 15th and 16th centuries, when the literary genre of the speculum principis has reached its maximum splendor, the portrait created by Xenophon of Cyrus the Elder as the ideal model of ruler, became so relevant that Latin and vernacular versions of the classic work proliferated. Valla, Vintimille and Gracián, who address their translations to future princes (both Valla and Vintimille have children as their main addressees), update the speculum principis the Ciropedia already is, modifying, omitting and amplifying certain passages. In this way, they purify the aspects of Xenophon’s model that they consider inappropriate, both in relation to the education Cyrus receives and to his behavior, and they intervene in the education of the prince.
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