Cómo escribir sobre una técnica de la oración. El <i>Tercer abecedario espiritual</i> de Francisco de Osuna

Abstract

The most widely-read book of the sixteenth century, Francisco de Osuna’s Tercer abecedario espiritual, profited like few others from the possibilities that the new technique of the printing press bid. We can see it examining his use of the alfabet structure, that fosters memorization and, therefore, helps internalize the devote content of the text. In this sence, Osuna’s techniques contrast with those preferred by contemporary religious writer Teresa de Ávila, who strove to impress her readers fomenting idendifiation between them and the author of the text.