Francisco de Quevedo (born as Francisco Gómez de Quevedo Villegas and Santibáñez Cevallos in Madrid on September 14, 1580 and died in Villanueva de los Infantes, Ciudad Real, September 8, 1645) is one of the most outstanding and unique writers of Spanish literature An unequivocal exponent of the literature and thought of the Golden Age, Quevedo was, in the words of Gerald Brenan "the only one of the writers of his time who opted for the painful path of living the present and preventing his countrymen with a long series of satires and denunciations of the ruin that awaited them ». His caustic temperament, his atrajilla humor and the peculiarity of his style made that in his time (the time of Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Góngora) did not enjoy great popularity. Ironies of life, the future, which he always saw black, reserved an important corner of immortality. Immortality certainly led to works in prose such as "The Buscon" and "Dreams", or poems such as the letrilla "Powerful gentleman is money" or "Psalm XVII" ("I looked at the walls of my homeland ...") , but to these works they make company in the eternal time of the classics the revelry of all their satirical poetry complete, the bile of their tracts, like the one that wrote against the canonization of Teresa of Jesus («Her sword for Santiago»), the perpetual mockery and befa of the gongorino style ("La cult latiniparla") or "Thanks and misfortunes of the eye of the ass".