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Quevedo y Villegas (Francisco Gómez de). El Parnasso Español [edited by Jose Antonio Gonzalez de Salas], Madrid: Diego Diaz de la Carrera for Pedro Coello, 1648, 7 full-page engraved plates by Juan de Noort and Herman Panneels after Alonso Cano the crowning of Quevedo by Apollo and the nine Castilian muses, and six individual muses corresponding to the six parts of the book (Clio, Polymnia, Melpomene, Erato, Terpsichore, and Thalia), title with late 18th or early 19th century ink ownership annotation 'De la libreria de San Antonio Abad, Madrid' (some marks and repairs, with upper portion of the leaf replaced in careful facsimile), a few minor ink annotations, some browning and marks throughout, small archival repairs to extreme lower margin of final two leaves, modern antique-style brown full calf, spine lettered in gilt, small 4to (196 x 140 mm) (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Libreria di San Antonio Abad, Madrid (inscription to title-page). Palau 244329. Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645) is regarded as one of the great poets of the Spanish Golden Age, and master of the baroque style known as 'conceptismo', a complex form of expression containing elaborate conceits and wordplay and addressing ethical and philosophical concerns, in addition to traditional poetic subjects such as love, desire, and death, similar to the metaphysical poetry of his English near-contemporary John Donne. Quevedo's poems were unpublished durung his own lifetime, but were assembled posthumously by his friend Jusepe Antonio Gonzalez de Salas and first published in 1648 in this edition. All 17th-century editions are rare.