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The Memory of Ruins: Quevedo's Silva to “Roma antigua y moderna”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Rodrigo Cacho Casal*
Affiliation:
Clare College, University of Cambridge

Abstract

The silva to “Roma antigua y moderna” by Francisco de Quevedo is a complex rewriting of Joachim Du Bellay's Antiquitez de Rome. The Spanish author makes an archeological study of his model, identifying the sources, and, through intertextual dialogue with the classical and humanistic descriptions of Rome, creates a symbolic space of memory where different stages of history are represented. In this manner, Quevedo produces a Baroque reading of the Renaissance.

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