Dio, uomo, mondo: la V parte del ‘Conde Lucanor’

The last part of the Conde Lucanor is not only the highest level of gradatio of knowledge outlined in the work, but exactly reproduces, as it were en abyme, the cultural model on which it is structured, making explicit, in the form of doctrinal treatise, the epistemological-Christian assumptions implicit in the first two sections. The argument, taking up notions vulgates by Scholastic, takes place from human duplicity, mundane and divine, and concludes with the recommendation to take the «carrera» that «guarda las dos vidas que dizen activa et contemplativa», a clear Thomist eco.