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Balbuena y Pérez, José (¿?-1791-¿?)
Vida
No se han encontrado datos que arrojen luz sobre la vida de José o Josef Valbuena (o Balbuena, como aparece en algunas las portadas de algunos de sus libros) y Pérez. Por las características de su obra, cabe suponer que fue un maestro del siglo XVIII con espíritu ilustrado.
Balbuena y Pérez escribió un manual con pretensiones enciclopédicas destinado a la instrucción de los niños pertenecientes a las clases sociales más bajas: el Arte nuevo de enseñar niños, y vasallos a leer, escrivir, y contar. El libro reúne nociones de Aritmética, lectoescritura, educación y moralidad, así como reglas gramaticales y ortográficas básicas supeditadas a la enseñanza de la escritura. Sus fuentes son la Academia y la Gramática de la lengua castellana reducida a breves reglas, y fácil méthodo para la instrucción de la juventud (Juan de Zúñiga, Madrid, 1743) de Benito Martínez Gómez Gayoso (1700-1787). Entre las páginas de su Arte, Balbuena incluyó una «Ortografía en verso» probablemente con un propósito didáctico, pues era habitual recurrir a la versificación para facilitar el proceso de aprendizaje.
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- Arte nuevo de enseñar niños, y vasallos a leer, escrivir, y contar las reglas de gramática, y orthografía castellana, precisas para escrivir correctamente; y formulario de cartas con los correspondientes tratamientos. Y una lámina fina, que representa las conseqüencias de la ociosidad, y del delito, y sus castigos, Ignacio Aguayo, Santiago, 1791.
Bibliografía
- Cotarelo Mori, Emilio, Diccionario biográfico y bibliográfico de calígrafos españoles, vol. 1, Tip. de la «Revista de Arch., Bibl. y Museos», Madrid, 1913, págs. 142-143.
- Esteve Serrano, Abraham, Estudios de teoría ortográfica del español, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, 1982, pág. 74.
- García Folgado, María José, «La gramática a finales del siglo XVIII (1769-1800): obras, objetivos y fuentes», en Cristóbal Corrales Zumbado et al. (eds.), Nuevas aportaciones a la Historiografía Lingüística. Actas del IV Congreso Internacional de la SEHL. La Laguna (Tenerife), 22 al 25 de octubre de 2003, vol. 1, Arco/Libros, Madrid, 2004, págs. 561-572, en concreto la pág. 567.
- García Folgado, María José, Los inicios de la gramática escolar en España (1768-1813). Una aproximación historiográfica, Peniope, Múnich, 2013, págs. 45 y 61.
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