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    Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾanˈθisko ðe keˈβeðo]; 14 September 1580 –...
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    prebendary for the Church of Córdoba. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time...
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  • Quevedo may refer to: Francisco de Quevedo, a prominent Spanish poet Quevedo (surname) Quevedo, Ecuador Quevedo (Madrid Metro), a station on Line 2 Quevedo...
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    Sharper or The Scavenger and The Swindler) is a picaresque novel by Francisco de Quevedo. It was written around 1604 (the exact date of completion is not...
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    further research. El Buscón (1626) by Francisco de Quevedo ridicules a student of Pacheco's Libro de las grandezas de la espada. The chapter ends with a...
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    best writers of the Spanish Golden Age, such as Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina or Francisco de Quevedo; and painted by Diego Velázquez, Murillo or Alonso...
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    Leonardo Torres Quevedo (Spanish: [leoˈnaɾðo ˈtores keˈβeðo]; 28 December 1852 – 18 December 1936) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician and inventor...
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    Baltasar Gracián and Francisco de Quevedo, playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón de la Barca and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, or the poetic...
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    and professionally, Lope de Vega was friend to the writer Francisco de Quevedo and arch-enemy of the dramatist Juan Ruiz de Alarcón. The volume of literary...
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    with Francisco de Quevedo as a result of Quevedo criticizing one of his works. Quevedo took off Pacheco's hat in the first encounter. In Quevedo's picaresque...
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    Quevedo or the Monument to Quevedo is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. A work by Agustín Querol, it is dedicated to Francisco de Quevedo, distinguished...
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    suggest that it comes from a translation in 1707, by J. Stevens, of Francisco de Quevedo (Spanish author): "You would have me teach my Grandame to suck Eggs"...
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  • repelled. Limpieza de sangre (Purity of Blood, 1997): Madrid, 1623. A woman is found murdered in front of a church. Later, Quevedo seeks help from Alatriste...
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    representative of Spanish culteranismo, Luis de Góngora, had an ongoing feud with Francisco de Quevedo in which they each criticized the other's writing...
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    Lazarillo de Tormes and Guzmán de Alfarache. In the Baroque era of the 17th century important works were the prose of Francisco de Quevedo and Baltasar...
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    September 4 – George Percy, English explorer (d. 1632) September 14 Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645) Robert Gordon of Straloch, Scottish cartographer...
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    Spain (redirect from Reino de España)
    Quevedo, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca or Tirso de Molina. During the Enlightenment authors included, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos...
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    Calderón de la Barca, Miguel de Cervantes, Francisco de Quevedo, Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Domingo de Soto, Francisco Suárez and Francisco de Vitoria...
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    of Francisco de Quevedo and Luis de Góngora; both had a lasting influence on subsequent writers and even on the Spanish language itself. Lope de Vega...
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    1604), the Spanish writer Francisco de Quevedo caustically suggests that the puff pastry pies sold at the inn of some Simón de Paredes in Madrid were being...
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  • Ford 1625 De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius Complete Essays – Francis Bacon Les Bergeries – Racan 1626 El Buscón – Francisco de Quevedo 1627 England's...
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    Picaresque novel (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    contributors to the genre included Mateo Alemán's Guzmán de Alfarache (1599–1604) and Francisco de Quevedo's El Buscón (1626). Some other ancient influences of...
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    and were regularly depicted as such. The prominent Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo always wore pince-nez, and was depicted wearing them in well-known...
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    the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote, such as an immense fake nose, recall his work. He also appears in the works of Francisco de Quevedo. Turning...
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    1858, he won a medal at an exhibition in Rome for his portrayal of Francisco de Quevedo seeing Martin Luther in Hell. After that, he decided to specialize...
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    mentioned at the start of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It is also known as the place where Francisco de Quevedo died; his remains were found in 2007 in...
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    merchandise..."). The cantina features in one of the sonnets of Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645). This is a quatrain from that sonnet: Esta cantina revestida...
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  • June 9 – Daniel Heinsius, Dutch scholar (died 1655) September 17 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish Golden Age writer (died 1645) October 12 – Hortensio Félix...
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  • Spanish racing cyclist Francisco de Quevedo, a leading baroque poet of Spain's Siglo de Oro (Golden Century) Gabriella Evelina Quevedo (born 1997), Swedish...
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    of Francisco de Quevedo whose Sueños (satirical visions of Hell) he imitated in his Sueños morales, visiones y visitas de Torres con D. Francisco de Quevedo...
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