Author: Dom Francisco De QuevedoPublisher: Tebbo
ISBN: 9781486485246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Visions of Quevedo. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Dom Francisco de Quevedo, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Visions of Quevedo in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Visions of Quevedo: Look inside the book: "I confess," said I, "that to be a poet, one must have an original turn of imagination; and the same qualification is necessary to a painter: p. 19one would find it very difficult to assume, without merit, the rank of Apelles and Michael Angelo: but as they cannot justly call these celebrated artists so generally admired, fools, so neither do I believe they can accuse of folly the great poets of Spain, of Italy, of France, of Turkey, of Persia, and of China: for in all these places they have made verses." ...You would see young men burning at the feet of their mistresses; and old ones, who, to please theirs, are continually shaving themselves, or plucking out their beard, and who put on bland perukes, to give themselves a youthful appearance; young girls, who imagine themselves to be Cleopatras, Artemisias, and Clelias; old coquettes, who paint themselves continually before their glass, who torment their locks, tightening the forehead-cloth to efface the wrinkles, and adjusting to the mouth artificial teeth of ivory or wax: but all their cases are lost, since there is nothing substantial in the other world.
