Juan de Valdés, humanista y lingüista

Abstract

The humanist orientation in his own perspectives determined
his work as a philologist. For that reason, he must be considered in such
an extent one of the most important Spanish humanists. According to his
humanist ideology, Juan de Valdés dealt with language and literature.
Even if he highlighted among all his literary production how useful the
use of the language is, it has been specially examined his philological
master-piece the Diálogo de la lengua among Valdés’ whole outstanding
works, because with it he did a great contribution to the enhancement and
development of the vernacular languages. Therefore his relation and his
approach to them in general and to Spanish in particular are paradigmatic.