Bello’s inexhaustible dedication to study and his longing for knowledge on the various branches of the luxuriant tree of human sciences allowed him to produce, during his prolific life, works that confirmed him as an exceptional polymath and intellectual guide of many Americans in the 19th century. Most certainly he initially had a leaning towards history, even though because of perfectly understandable reasons he could not develop a continuous activity in the field of language history, as cientifically achieved as his exceptional qualities would have predicted. Nevertheless, his edition and annotation of Cantar de Mío Cid shows aspects of great modernity and are the expression of Bello’s linguistic genius, who with this philological study contributed significantly to Menéndez Pidal’s work recognition decades later.
Keywords:
American linguistic culture, Bello the philologist, Bello and Menéndez Pidal
Frago, J. A. (2015). Andrés Bello, language historian. On Cantar de Mío Cid. Boletín De Filología, 50(1), Pág. 107 – 134. Retrieved from https://revistachilenahumanidades.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/36732
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