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This study, written by two teachers of literary theory, aims to highlight that Francisco de Quevedo, both poet and prose writer, is the Spanish author of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, aside from Cervantes, who has been most assiduously and penetratingly studied by central figures of literary theory, in such a way that his work has served to raise, explain or develop fundamental concepts of literary theory. It is no coincidence that Quevedo is referred to by Bakhtin, Spitzer (who received his doctorate with a thesis on El Buscón), the stylistics of Dámaso Alonso, Lázaro Carreter and Alessandro Martinengo, the Slavic formalism, the literary sociology of Edmond Cros, or the theories on satire, parody and the grotesque. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The series of types and situations present in Quevedo's prose, poetry and comic theater shows that the motif of poverty is one of the most fertile in relation with the author's capacity to create both ingenious and witty neologisms and caricatures. At the same time, it offers many features that harmonize with the cultural misogyny of the writer and his time. According to the many examples collected, the beggar's figure can be assimilated to that of the pedigüeña, while the beggar is looking for sexual charity. In both cases, the relationship between men and women offers to Quevedo's satirical pen the opportunity of adapting the poor's type to a materialistic and degenerated vision of love. Moreover, even some philological and moral comments encourage original metaphors of the type or features of the poor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo contiene la versión en español de los sumarios de los artículos publicados en el presente número.

This article studies the agudeza in Libro de todas las cosas y otras muchas más, a satirical burlesque work by Francisco de Quevedo. The text presents itself as a parody of the miscellanies, a literary genre that became very popular from the mid 16lh century onwards, and in it the author develops the satirical motifs of diis period by using a great variety of procedures of agudeza. The main resources are, like in most of the tides of this author's prose, the equivoco and the dilogy, to which the truism is added as a means of mocking the encyclopedic repertoires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]