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Francisco de Quevedo
1580–1645
A sharp, brilliant voice of Spain’s Golden Age, this Baroque writer is still famous for his dazzling wit, fierce satire, and restless intelligence. His poems and prose move easily from biting humor to deep reflections on politics, morality, and human weakness.
6 Audiobooks
Historia de la vida del Buscón, llamado Don Pablos, ejemplo de vagabundos y espejo de tacaños
by Francisco de Quevedo
Los Sueños, Volume I
by Francisco de Quevedo
Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper
by Francisco de Quevedo
Los Sueños, Volume II
by Francisco de Quevedo
The Visions of Quevedo
by Francisco de Quevedo
The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas
by Francisco de Quevedo
About the author
Born in Madrid in 1580, Francisco de Quevedo became one of the best-known writers of the Spanish Baroque. He was a nobleman as well as a man of letters, and his life brought him close to the royal court, political power, and the tensions of seventeenth-century Spain.
Quevedo wrote across many genres, including poetry, satire, political and moral prose, and fiction. He is especially linked with conceptismo, a style known for its compressed language, quick turns of thought, and verbal ingenuity. He also had a long and famous literary rivalry with Luis de Góngora, whose very different style helped define the era’s debates about poetry.
His work could be funny, cruel, philosophical, or intensely serious, sometimes all at once. That mix gives his writing its lasting energy: behind the jokes and verbal fireworks, he kept returning to big questions about power, time, faith, vanity, and the fragility of human life.