“Monarchies and Tyrannies”: Nabucco’s Statue in Quevedo

Abstract

Within the distinct modalities of Quevedo’s sculptural poetry examined on other occasions (poems to the statues of monarchs; the madrigal “Retrato de Lisi en mármol”, etc.), this work aims to study a moral variation through the case of the sonnet “To Pride, with the Example of Nabucco’s Statue” (with two versions), in dialogue with other prose commentaries, which allows certain possibilities of the evidentia to be explored, along with a new exercise in rewriting.