Repuesta al Libro Intitulado Politica de Dios, Govierno de Christo, Tirania de Satanas, que Compuso Francisco de Quevedo ["Response to the Book Entitled Poltics of God, Government of Christ, Tyranny of Satan, Composed by Francisco de Quevedo."]

(POLEMIC)

Madrid

1626

Manuscript in Spanish. Neatly penned Coat-of-Arms on half-title and title. Quotation from Job 15:6 surrounded by elaborately illustrated design depicting the triumph of Truth over Falsehood

In 1626 the Spanish satirist Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645) published the political essay Poltica de Dios, which poked fun at Christianity. Whatever reservations de Quevedo might have had about organized Christianity, he was hardly a friend of the Jews. De Queredo attacked his literary rival Luis de Góngora (1561-1627) with allusions to his "Jewish" nose and "threatened to anoint his own poems with bacon so that Góngora would be deterred from stealing them." See EJ Vol. XV cols. 249-50