Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo was born in Madrid in 1580, into a family of hidalgos originally from Vejorís, in Cantabria; his parents served at court. Lame and short-sighted, and fatherless at six, he studied with the Jesuits, at Alcalá from 1596 to 1600, then at Valladolid. A duel in which he killed a man forced him to make for Italy, to his protector the Duke of Osuna, whom he went on to serve. Arrested in 1639, he was imprisoned in the convent of San Marcos in León, from which he emerged gravely ill in 1643. An enemy of Góngora all his life, he died in 1645 in Villanueva de los Infantes.

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• NovelThe GrifterEl BuscónFrancisco de Quevedo · 1626LiteraturePublic domain