Quevedo: The Choice [Collected] Humorous and Satirical Works

xlvii, 407 pp. Translated into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange (1667) and John Stevens (1697). With the First Complete and Unexpurgated English Version of Quevedo's Vida del Buscon, or The Life of the Great Rascal Pablo de Segovia, Exemplary Vagabond and Ideal Sharper. By Charles Duff with and Introduction and Notes. "Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas (14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival, Luis de Góngora, Quevedo was one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age. His style is characterized by what was called conceptismo. This style existed in stark contrast to Góngora's culteranismo.