Francisco de Quevedo

Lia Schwartz (York College, CUNY)

Ed. by Stuart Green, University of Leeds
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.2.01: Spanish Literature and Culture from the Beginning to the Golden Age.
Vol. editors: Andrew M. Beresford (University of Durham), Stuart Green (University of Leeds), Juan Pablo Rodriguez (Yale University), Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds)

Dates

Born 14 Sep 1580
Died 8 Sep 1645
Activity 1600-1645

Places

Born in Spain
Active in Spain

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Poet
Political writer
Satirist

Resources

Quevedo's Works

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The satires of Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, particularly his

Sueños

[

Visions

], and his picaresque novel,

Vida del Buscón

[

The Swindler

], were widely known throughout Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries. Translated into French and into English, as well as Dutch and German, they became literary models for the Menippean variety, and for the representation of rogues, marginals and delinquents in narrative fiction. In Spain, his first prose and verse satires circulated in manuscript since 1600; soon, many of his poems were published in collective anthologies, such as Espinosa’s

Flores de poetas ilustres

(1605), and thereafter in several others. By the third decade of the seventeenth century when Quevedo began to promote the publication of his literary works and of…

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Citation: Schwartz, Lia. "Francisco de Quevedo". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 October 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3680, accessed 26 November 2024.]