Manifestaciones de la cultura emblemática del Barroco en Navarra: fray Félix Bretos y El menor predicador capuchino [Manifestations of the Baroque Emblematic Culture in Navarre: Brother Félix Bretos and El Menor Predicador Capuchino]

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Abstract

The Capuchin Felix Bretos of Pamplona (Pamplona, at about 1621-1701), is the author of El Menor Predicador Capuchino, a book of sermons thanks to which he enters in the list of the singular preachers of the Province. To compose his work he resorts to an authentic arsenal of erudition, with quotations from the Holy Scripture, the Fathers of the Church, and the medieval scholastics, as well as from the Greco-Latin authors and other ones closer to his age. And emblematic literature also appears among his very diverse sources, so that in the pages of El Menor Predicador Capuchino examples from Alciato, Valeriano, Capaccio, Cartari, Camerarius or Saavedra Fajardo are shown, as well as Esopo’s fables. Nevertheless, the text not only works as a mere receiver of emblematic references, but also becomes itself a book of emblems.