Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo (e book reading free TXT) 📕
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Francisco de Quevedo holds the status of a man-of-letters in the same pantheon as Cervantes; but despite that, Pablo de Segovia is his only novel. Quevedo had circulated the manuscript privately for several years before it was published in 1626 without his permission. The novel is partly a satire of contemporary Spanish life, and a caricature of the various social strata Pablo encounters and emulates.
Pablo himself is a low-born person who aspires to become a gentleman, but despite his best efforts he repeatedly fails and is eventually forced to become a “sharper,” or rogue. His failures give Quevedo an avenue to expound on his belief that attempting to break past your social class can only lead to disorder; and that despite one’s best efforts, bettering oneself is largely impossible. Pablo’s stumbling from misfortune to misfortune is a farce that helped cement Quevedo’s reputation as a literary giant.
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The famous secretary of Philip II, whose intrigues against Spain never ceased till his death in 1611. ↩
Ostend was taken by the Spaniards under Espinola, on the 22nd September, 1604, after a siege which lasted more than three years. ↩
A book so named, written by a famous master of the sword, Pacheco de Narváez, was published at Madrid in 1600. ↩
There was actually a famous fencing-master, a mulatto, Francisco Hernandez, of whom his rival, Narváez, wrote slightingly. Probably they are both ridiculed in this passage. ↩
Majalahonda is a village ten miles from Madrid, famous for the rudeness of its inhabitants and their speech. See Don Quixote, Part II, chapter XIX. ↩
Demandador—one who begs for alms for the release of the souls of the poor from purgatory, elsewhere called facetiously animero. ↩
In the original, “que era un Conde de Irlos.” The Conde de Irlos was one of the heroes of the ancient ballads. He was the Marquis de Carabas of Spanish legend. ↩
Literally, “he who is nothing cannot be a son of something,” i.e., hidalgo—hijo de algo. ↩
Jerome Bosch, a Dutch painter who settled in Spain in the latter half of the fifteenth century, famous for his eccentric works—the Spanish Callot. ↩
Meaning that she pretended to practise witchcraft, like others of her calling. ↩
Signum crucis—slang for a sword-cut across the face. ↩
Noted bravoes of the period. ↩
ColophonPablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper
was published in 1626 by
Francisco de Quevedo.
It was translated from Spanish in 1798 by
Pedro Pineda.
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Portrait of a Man,
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