We can also date back to this time the first draft of his picaresque novel Vida del Buscón -apparently written as an exercise in courtly wit- and a few satirical pamphlets that made him famous among his fellow students and which he would later disown as juvenile pranks.Īround this time, he began a very erudite exchange of letters with the humanist Justus Lipsius, in which Quevedo deplored the wars that were ravaging Europe. Some of his poetry was collected in a 1605 generational anthology by Pedro Espinosa entitled Flores de Poetas Ilustres ( Flowers by Illustrious Poets). There he studied theology, a subject that would become a lifelong interest, and on which in later life he would compose the treatise Providencia de Dios (God's Providence), against atheism.īy this time, he was becoming noted as both a poet and a prose writer. In 1601, Quevedo, as a member of the Court, moved to Valladolid, where the Court had been transferred by the King's minister, the Duke of Lerma. By his own account, he made independent studies in philosophy, classical languages, Arabic, Hebrew, French and Italian. ![]() ![]() He then attended university at Alcalá de Henares from 1596 to 1600. Orphaned by the age of six, he was able to attend the Imperial School run by the Jesuits in Madrid.
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