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Biografia Quevedo Villegas, Francisco de
«Francisco de Quevedo was born at Madrid in 1570 and was a man of quality, as appears from his being stiled Knight of the Order of St James. He was one of the most celebrated authors of his age, both in verse and prose. He had a singular force and fruitfulness of imagination, which enabled him to render the moft inflpid subjects diverting, by embellishing them with all the ornaments of fiction He was perfect master of the Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French, and Italian languages The severity of his Satires procured him many enemies and brought him into great troubles. The Count d’Olivarez, favourite and prime minister to Philip IV. of Spain, imprisoned him for being too free with his administration and government; nor did he obtain his liberty till that minister was disgraced. He died in the year 1646. His Poetical Works went under the general title of Parnasso Espagnol, or Spanish Parnassus. His productions in prose are, The Night-Adventurer or The Day-Hater; The Life of Paul, the Spanish Sharper; The Retentive Knight, and his Epistles; The Dog and Fever; A Proclamation by Old Father Time; A Treatise on all Things whatsoever; Fortune in her Wits; or The Hour of all Men; and, lastly, the VISIONS, which are a Satire upon corruption of manners in all sorts and degrees of people; are full of Wit and Morality and have gone through many editions […]» (Visions, translated from the Spanish of Don Francisco de Quevedo, to which is prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, London, John Bell, 1774, pp. [I-II], non numerate).
Quevedo Villegas, Francisco de. Di Juan van der Hamen [1596-1631]