Quevedo: Sonnets and Poems

Popular culture

  • In Giannina Braschi's novel Yo-Yo Boing! contemporary Latin American poets have a heated, drunken debate about Quevedo's profile in defining the Spanish Golden Age.
  • Quevedo is a main character of Captain Alatriste's books written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. In the movie Alatriste, he was played by Juan Echanove.
  • He is also a main character in the alternate history novel 1635: The Cannon Law by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis.
  • And he is a main character in the 2013 novel Sudden Death (Spanish title "Muerte subita") by Alvaro Enrigue, where he is pitted in a tennis match against the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio.

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