Disputa de l'ase
- Language:
- Catalan
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~50,700 words · 241 passages
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What it is about
Disputation of the Donkey (1417): a donkey proves that animals are worth more than men.
Context and history
Turmeda was a Majorcan Franciscan converted to Islam in Tunis, where he lived as Abdallah al-Tarjuman. He wrote this in Catalan and the Church placed it on the Index. **Warning: the Catalan original is lost**; the text is known through a sixteenth-century French translation.
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LA causa e ocasió de l'aplech de tant d'animals era per ço com llur Rey no havia gayre era mort: lo qual havia stat un noble lleó, fort savi, de gran justicia, e molt valent e ardit de sa persona.…
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