If you have had Latin and Spanish in high school or college, you probably used a grammar book to help you learn the language. You may also have wondered how your book of Latin grammar or Spanish, so you can learn more easily organized. More than five hundred years ago, Elio Antonio de Nebrija was an educator of Spain whose academic contribution to both languages, the father of Spanish grammar of Latin and done informally.
The greatest contribution of Nebrija Iberia and the rest of Europe is the first book of Latin grammar, Introductiones Latinae, written in Spanish in 1481. In 1492, Nebrija also wrote Spanish in Latin dictionary. In 1495, he surpassed himself by publishing the opposite: an America in the Spanish dictionary. They were the first grammar and dictionaries printed in Latin Europe, which was revolutionary because all the books printed before was completely written in Latin. Iberia and Spanish, Portuguese and possibly could read Latin for its Spanish translation.
Before Nebrija published his works, Latin was the language used by the Roman Empire many previous centuries. For a long time, countries that were conquered by the Empire, Spain, France, Italy, Romania and Portugal speak Latin and classical written "vulgar" Latin for communication of oral communication. Over the centuries, American dialects spoken in each of these countries became independent and Romance languages. However, the formal classical Latin of the Roman Empire survived in manuscripts written especially of Roman literature, classic formal speeches and sermons on morality of the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1492, Nebrija wrote the first grammar of a modern European language published- The Grammatica Spanish language (of Spanish Grammar). For the rest of Europe, a book of grammar in the language of your country was unprecedented. Nebrija actually published this book in Isabela, the Queen of Spain, so he can use it as a tool to centralize all the other languages in different parts of Spain in Castilian language, an empire. He was also not only for the Iberian Peninsula, but future Spanish colonies, which was prophesied by the Nebrija owner:
It was prophetic, in which the conquest of the Americas, and centuries of colonialism, the language was used by the Spanish conquest as a tool to consolidate political power, to spread the Catholic faith, and unify the empire. (Zhenja La Rosa, Language and Empire: The Vision of Nebrija).
Nebrija divided his Grammatica into four parts: spelling, language, that is, words and their origins and grammar and parts of speech. Nebrija included fifth methods of language "Castilian" (Spanish) education. These linguistic elements are used in foreign-language books today, not only in the Spanish language. Nebrija even published his latest book, rules of Spanish orthography, to focus more generally on rules of pronunciation and spelling of words in Spanish.
After the work of Nebrija, Castilian (Spanish) experienced a renaissance in classical Roman literature have been published. They traveled to Italy, where Nebrija studied and exposed to the Italian Renaissance. As a result, Spain has experienced its own cultural renaissance; Spain number of literary publications by Spanish authors exploded, so this period was known as the "Golden Age" of Spanish Literature (The Golden Age). Books, poetry, plays and stories actively being printed in the Castilian language. Among the first popular works were two that were written in narrative prose: La Celestina (1499) and Lazarrillo de Tormes (1554). In 1605, the first part of the first in the world and probably the greatest novel, Don Quixote, written by Miguel de Cervantes, was released by popular demand.
Publications Elio Antonio de Nebrija in Spanish and Latin pioneer. Since his first book of instructions for America was the largest medieval Europeans to read Latin, today's tool, the influence of the first Spanish grammar book was indispensable. Without this language input, the rest of the world would not be able to reach 400-500 million people in twenty countries whose mother tongue is Spanish.
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