Francisco Gómez deQuevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago ( Spanish pronunciation: [fɾanˈθisko ðe keˈβeðo]; 14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645), was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era.
His parents were Juan Quevedo and Carlota Vasquez. He was educated at the Escuela Normal de Preceptores in 1874. Given the title of state professor (profesor de Estado), he was named director of a Quillota public school in 1875.
Quevedo's style, which relied on the use of witty conceits and elaborate metaphors, is reflective of his own somewhat cynical attitudes towards literature as a whole; Quevedo was fiercely distrustful of excessively complicated literature…