Chapter XIX: Francisco De Quevedo Y Villegas

Birth and Training 255
Exile 256
Public Service in Sicily 256
In Naples 257
Persecution at Home 257
Marries 257
Persecution again 258
His Sufferings and Death 259
Variety of his Works 259
Many suppressed 260
His Poetry 261
Its Characteristics 262
Cultismo 263
El Bachiller de la Torre 263
His Prose Works 267
Paul the Sharper 269
Various Tracts 269
The Knight of the Forceps 269
La Fortuna con Seso 270
Visions 271
Quevedo’s Character 274