This book analyzes the ideas which Francisco de Quevedo developed over the course of forty years within a body of literary work which, in terms of its themes, genres, traditions, and stylistic characteristics, was extremely diverse, covering the final years of humanism in which Quevedo.

Francisco de Quevedo (Madrid, 1580-1645) was well known for his rich and dynamic style, achieved through an ingenious and complex manipulation of language. Yet he was also a consistent and systematic thinker, with moral philosophy, broadly understood, lying at the core of his numerous and varied works. Quevedo lived in an age of transition, with th