Repuesta al libro intitulado Politica de Dios, Govierno de Christo, Tirania de Satanas, que compuso Francisco de Queredo [Response to the book entitled Poltics of God, Government of Christ, Tyranny of Satan, composed by Francisco de Queredo]

(POLEMICS)

Madrid

1626

Coat-of-Arms on half-title (f1r.) and on title (f.5r.) Quotation from Job15:6 surrounded by elaborate design depicting the triumph of truth over falsehood in human figures

In 1626 the Spanish satirist Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645) published the political essay Poltica de Dios, gobierno de Cristo y tiranía de Satanás, which poked fun at Christianity. The present manuscript is a defense of the Church. Whatever reservations de Quevedo might have had about organized Christiany, he was hardly a friend of the Jews. De Quevedo attacked his literary rival Luis de Góngora with allusions to his nose—it was commonly believed that the nose revealed a man’s Jewish origin—and threatened to anoint his own poems with bacon so that Góngora would be deterred from stealing them! See EJ, Vol. XV, cols. 249-250