LA MITOLOGÍA CLÁSICA EN LAS MEMORIE DI STORIA NATURALE DEL JESUITA EXPULSO CHILENO JUAN IGNACIO MOLINA, UN PRECURSOR DE DARWIN. (Spanish)

Molina was a leading intellectual, a rigorous naturalist and a Hellenist who made little use of myths in his scientific treatises, such as the Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili. However, in the two volumes of delightful essays or scholarly lectures, Memorie di storia naturale frequent and timely allusions to myths appear, as well as to the evolution of species, anticipating Darwin. Molina was the expelled Chilean Jesuit who, due to his training and permanent cultivation of Latin and Greek, was excellently able to intersperse Greco-Latin mythological and cultural references in his writings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Molina fue un intelectual de primera fila, riguroso naturalista y helenista que empleaba muy poco los mitos en sus tratados científicos, como el Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili. Otra cosa son los dos tomos de deliciosos ensayos o eruditas conferencias, Memorie di storia naturale, donde aparecen frecuentes y oportunas alusiones a los mitos y a la evolución de las especies, anticipándose a Darwin. Molina fue el jesuita expulso chileno que, por su formación y cultivo permanente del latín y del griego, estuvo en las mejores condiciones para sembrar sus escritos de referencias mitológicas y culturales grecolatinas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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