1st Edition

The Last Days of Humanism: A Reappraisal of Quevedo's Thought

By Alfonso Rey Copyright 2015
    226 Pages
    by Routledge

    226 Pages
    by Routledge

    Francisco de Quevedo (Madrid, 1580-1645) was well known for his rich and dynamic style, achieved through an ingenious and complex manipulation of language. Yet he was also a consistent and systematic thinker, with moral philosophy, broadly understood, lying at the core of his numerous and varied works. Quevedo lived in an age of transition, with th

    1. The Purpose of Literature 2. Neostoicism 3. Lucianesque Satire 4. Comicality 5. The Natural Environment 6. Statecraft 7. Nobility 8. War 9. Contemporary Chronicles 10. Considering Petrarch’s Canzoniere 11. Erotic Neoplatonism 12. Quevedo’s Readers

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    Alfonso Rey