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6 unusual facts about Francisco de Quevedo


Eduard Toldrà

Nobody can be happy (Garcilaso de la Vega); Después que te conocí - Since I've known you (Francisco de Quevedo); Cantarcillo; Madre, unos ojuelos vi (Lope de Vega)

Los Sueños

Los Sueños (Dreams or Visions) is a satirical prose work by the Spanish Baroque writer Francisco de Quevedo.

Luis Pacheco de Narváez

In 1608, he held a duel with Francisco de Quevedo as a result of Quevedo criticizing one of his works.

The Vision of Judgment

In this edition Byron's name was not used, the poem being said to be by "Quevedo Redivivus" (Quevedo revived).

To a Man with a Big Nose

To a Man with a Big Nose/ danny Z is a 3D animated short film based on a poem by Spanish author Francisco de Quevedo.

Villanueva de los Infantes

It is also known as the place where Francisco de Quevedo died; his remains were found in 2007 in the church of San Andrés Apostol (St. Andrew's Church).


Juan Huarte de San Juan

His influence can be seen (though not always cited) in the work of Miguel de Cervantes (whose Don Quixote was inspired by him), Francis Bacon, Pierre Charron, Immanuel Kant, Noam Chomsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Hume, Montesquieu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Francisco de Quevedo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer, Jakob Thomasius, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

Juan van der Hamen

He executed a portrait of Philip IV and worked during the 1620s in a series of portraits of the principal intellectuals and writers of his time, including: Lope de Vega, Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Jose de Valdivieso, Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón and Francisco de Rioja.

Luis de Góngora

The narrator of the Captain Alatriste series, a friend of Francisco de Quevedo within the stories, illustrates Góngora’s feuding with Quevedo, both by quoting poetry from each as well as describing Quevedo’s attitude toward Góngora through the course of the story.

Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota

The obscurity and complexity of Solari's writing often was compared with Baroque writers, particularly Francisco de Quevedo, but with a corrosive approach to the present day, being Neoliberalism in Argentina, the Gulf War, political corruption, the media, drug culture and the dark aspects of love.

San Ginés, Madrid

Lope de Vega, the dramatist (playwright) and writer, was baptized here, while poet Francisco de Quevedo, was married there.


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