Plauto Bascongadoren eztabaida: testu-bilduma

Abstract

Here we publish four controversial texts from the 19th century, all of them difficult to locate until now: the Plauto-Vascongado (1826) by Fray Bartolome, the Plauto Poligloto (1828) by Lecluse, Iztueta's Carta (1829) to J.J. Moguel (Fray Bartolome's editor), and the Anti-Plauto-Poligloto (1829) by Fray Bartolome. It is pointed out in the introduction that although the starting point of the debate was Fray Bartolome's interpretation of the supposed Basque passage in Plautus' Poenulus (disputed by Lecluse), the polemic soon moved on to grammatical and lexicographical questions when Fray Bartolome, in his turn, blindly attacked Lecluse's Manuel de la Langue Basque. Even political and religious questions became involved, owing to the outraged friar's attack on Iztueta's Guipuzcoaco Dantzen Condaira.