Abstract
Don Iñigo López de Mendoza, marquis of Santillana, member of the high castilian nobility and great literary figure of the first half of the 15th century, built a large library in his palace in Guadalajara. Among its manuscripts, many reveal the deep interest that the marquis and his circle took in Aristotle’s ethical doctrine. Among these manuscripts, the ms 10269 of the Biblioteca Nacional de España is of high interest because each one of its texts offers an illustration of a particular form of popularization of the aristotelian materials. The common theme of these texts is virtue in its various forms according to the Nicomachean Ethics – moral and intellectual virtues. I will study the specific example of the most political of them, namely prudence, which is defined in various ways in this compilation.
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