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The correspondence of the Spanish humanist, biblical scholar and Hebraist Benito Arias Montano (ca. 1525/1527-1598) is a rich source of data for sixteenth-century European history. Among his correspondents one can find key figures of late Humanism such as Iustus Lipsius, Christopher Plantin, Carolus Clusius, Laevinus Torrentius, Luis de León, etc., and great patrons of the time such as Philip II, the Duke of Alba and Cardinal Granvela. Arias Montano represents the ideal of a 16th-century humanist, author of prose and verse, theologian specialized in the biblical text, inveterate bibliophile, and cultivator of endless scholarly, scientific, and political interests. The research project «Benito Arias Montano: Epistolario» was launched in 1995 by professors Juan Gil Fernández and José María Maestre Maestre, and has been developed since then in the «Elio Antonio de Nebrija» Research Group of the University of Cádiz, with the collaboration of other Spanish and foreign researchers.
This web page, with an eminently academic and scientific orientation (but with a vocation to reach a wider audience), faces the challenge of publishing the first online edition in progress of the correspondence of this great Spanish humanist in accordance with the standards of the Digital Revolution of our days. To this end, we offer a dynamic digital critical edition that provides different perspectives on the text of the letters depending on the type of reader (text with a critical apparatus and visualization of XML-TEI markup, Spanish translation of the letters in Latin, text without visualization of XML-TEI markup, XML document, in addition to the facsimiles of the letters themselves); that includes a search engine and filters with possibilities far superior to those of paper or PDF; that facilitates navigation throughout all correspondence through internal links; and that, in short, allows the interested reader instant and barrier-free access to the critical edition, translation and notes of the text of Arias Montano's letters with the highest possible level of updating.
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