RT journal article T1 De litteris Latinis Latine docendis: El comentario humanístico de textos clásicos y su aplicación didáctica en la actualidad A1 Ramos Maldonado, Sandra Inés A2 Filología Clásica K1 Teaching of Latin literature K1 Pliny the Elder K1 linguistic mediation K1 humanistic commentaries K1 communicative competence AB This article discusses the application in the classroom of the Latin paraphrasis and the humanistic commentaries and relates this ancient instructional resource to the modern concept of “linguistic mediation”. The first commentary published in Spain in 1504 on Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia by Lucius Flaminius Siculus is examined along with some additional statements on Pliny’s work from the commentary by Martinho de Figueiredo published later in Lisbon (1529). Pliny’s Naturalis Historia, which was used in Europe during the Renaissance as a university textbook, was very helpful to students, as Flaminius in Salamanca and Figueiredo in Lisbon explained with remarkable success in the Latin language to audiences of scholars and students. PB André Simões, David Mesquita (edd.) Universidade de Lisboa SN 2183-6485 YR 2019 FD 2019 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/24222 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/24222 LA spa DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 22-sep-2026