author
Francisco de Quevedo
1580–1645
A sharp, brilliant voice from Spain’s Golden Age, remembered for dazzling wit, biting satire, and language that still feels alive centuries later. His poems and prose can be playful, dark, and piercing all at once.
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 was a Spanish nobleman, writer, and political figure of the Baroque era. He became one of the most important authors of Spain’s Golden Age, celebrated for both poetry and prose and for an extraordinary command of language.
Quevedo is especially known for his satirical edge and for writing that could shift quickly from comic and scornful to deeply serious. His work ranges across love poems, moral reflections, political writing, and some of the best-known picaresque prose in Spanish literature, including The Life of the Buscón.
His life was as intense as his writing: he moved in court and political circles, took part in major controversies of his time, and spent periods in disgrace and imprisonment. He died in 1645, but his style, wit, and verbal inventiveness have kept him central to Spanish literature ever since.