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Ambiguous Antidotes:
Virtue as Vaccine for Vice
in Early Modern Spain

HILAIRE KALLENDORF

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Toronto Buffalo London
Contents

List of Figures xi
Prologue: Virtuous Genealogies xiii
Acknowledgments xix

Introduction 3
I Virtue as a Medical Metaphor 4
II Correspondences of Virtue to Vice 10
III Antidotes 12
IV Pharmakon 22
V The Golden Mean 29
1 Blind Justice 37
2 Fleeting Fortitude 69
3 Charity as Greed 84
4 Loose Chastity 106
5 Prudence: Panacea or Placebo? 126
6 Class Trumps Sex: The (En)gendering of Virtue 145
Conclusion 164
I (Not Just) the Veneer of Virtue 164
II Virtus or Virus? 167
III Historical / Literary Roots 171
IV Machiavellian Virtu 173
V Erasmus at the Theatre 181
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Epilogue: Virtual Virtue

Notes 199
Bibliography 263
Index of Comedias 295
Index 309