Francisco de Quevedo there Villegas - SpeedyLook encyclopedia

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo Santibáñez Villegas (probably born the September 17th 1580 with Madrid, baptized the September 26th - died the September 8th 1645 with Villanueva of los Infantes, Province of Ciudad Real) is a Spanish writer there 17th century, one of the most complex and important figures of the literature of the Siècle of Spanish gold.

Biography

When it is six years old, Francisco de Quevedo loses his/her father, Pedro Gómez de Quevedo there Villegas, in 1586. His/her mother, María de Santibañez will have the load of her sons until her characteristic died, in 1600 and will take care to give them best education, in spite of the difficult economic situation in which the disappearance of her husband plunged the family. After having attended the imperial College of the Society of Jesus of Madrid, it continues its studies, in 1594, with the college of the Jésuites of Ocaña, while profiting from a purse granted by the king, thanks to the intervention of his grandmother, Felipa de Espinosa.

In 1596, it undertakes artistic studies at the University of Alcalá de Henares and obtains three years later its diploma of graduate be-arts, then in 1600 its license. The same year, it begins studies of Théologie in the same university. It is thought that it is during this period that its friendship with Pedro Téllez Girón begins, future duke of Osuna. The following year, it leaves to continue its studies at the university of Valladolid, city in which the court had transferred itself.

Man of action implied in the most important intrigues of his time, Quevedo was also Doctor of Divinity and knew the languages Hebraic, Greek, Latin and modern. Recognized for its field crop, as much as for the virulence of its criticisms, he became the enemy, at the same time literary and personal, other large poet baroque Luis of Góngora.

In 1613, it goes in Italy to the call of his/her friend and guard, the duke of Osuna, become viceroy of Sicily and Naples, to enter to its service. This one entrusts diplomatic missions to him. The duke of Osuna fell in disgrace in 1620, and Quevedo was involved in its fall.

In 1634, Francisco de Quevedo marries a widow, Esperanza de Mendoza, but this marriage does not bring any happiness to large the mysogine, which is not long in separating from his wife one year after their marriage, while fleeing of Venice.

Throughout its life, he will have known in turn the royal favors, then disgrace. Its attempts to take part in the political life showed failures, which cost him its freedom. Fallen twice in disgrace, he was condemned twice to the stops, in a prison initially, then in a monastery.

Of 1639 with 1643, it is imprisoned in a dungeon of the Couvent San Marcos de León, prison miserable and wet, where its health is degraded. When it is released in 1643, Quevedo is a weakened man, who withdraws in his grounds of Torre de Juan Abad. It then leaves to settle with Villanueva of los Infantes, where it dies the September 8th 1645.

Work

Its literary work is immense and contradictory. Man of field crop, land-mark, edge, courtier, Francisco de Quevedo wrote the burlesques pages and the most brilliant satirists and most popular of the Spanish Littérature. But he is also the author of a lyric work great height and some texts of morals and policy of one great depth intellectual, which make the principal one representing Spanish baroque.

Quevedo is the author baroque par excellence. He wrote satirical and fantastic tales but also of poetries. Its work, of a black pessimism and always haunted by death, is that of a pitiless humorist, excelling in the Satire Burlesque and the Pamphlet, which turns into ridiculous them through its contemporaries. It is characteristic of the style conceptist.

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