Calle de Quevedo
After Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), Golden Age poet and prose writer, master of satire and conceptismo and author of El Buscón. He owned a house at number 9. It took its present name in 1848; earlier it was calle del Niño, after an image of the Niño de la Guardia.
Quevedo and Góngora loathed each other, and this street holds the most everyday proof of that feud. In the house at number 9, Luis de Góngora lived as a tenant from 1619.
Quevedo, who could not stand his rival, found the perfect revenge. In 1620 he bought the whole building for the sole purpose of evicting the tenant. He managed it around 1625, claiming Góngora wasn’t paying rent, and kept the property until 1634.
The street joins that of Cervantes with that of Lope de Vega, so that four of the great pens of the Golden Age end up neighbors in this corner of Madrid.
Its names
- Calle del Niño (y del Buen Pastor)h.1620–1847
- Calle de Quevedo1848
Sources (7)
- Calle de Quevedo — Wikipedia
- Por las calles de Madrid — Calle de Quevedo (blog con citas de Répide)
- Casa de Quevedo — esmadrid.com (Ayuntamiento de Madrid)
- La casa de Góngora y Quevedo en Madrid — homohominisacrares.net
- Casa de Góngora y Quevedo — Casa Museo Lope de Vega
- Quevedo y la Calle de la Madera — Arte en Madrid
- Calle de Quevedo — Por-las-calles-de-madrid (Webnode)