Joan Baptista Queralt, a Seventeenth-Century Valencian Against the Ciceronians and the Grammatistae, in Favor of Eclecticism (With a Note on Francisco Martins)

In Valencia in 1612 Joan Baptista Queralt published Francisco Martins’s Latin grammar Observationes super Latinae lingua proprietate under the title Aureus de latinae linguae pro`pietate libellus à D. Martino Primario in Salmanticensi Academia latinae linguae professore, typis excussus; nunc observationibus ingratiam Valentinae juventutis, à Licenciato I. Civilis, et Theologiae, Ioanne Queralt Valentino illustratus. In his prologue Queralt asks the city fathers (Jurats) of Valencia to adopt it at the University of Valencia over which they had been granted authority in 1611. Queralt’s prologue is a vehement attack on the grammatistae and the strict Ciceronians. The Latin text is edited, translated, and annotated in the appendix.