Lipsius’ "Somnium" and the revolt of the folk characters who recite proverbs in Quevedo’s "Sueño de la muerte"
Abstract
My study arises from the observation of the similarities between Lipsius’ Somnium and Quevedo’s Sueño de la Muerte (1621-1622). First I will discuss Satyra Menippaea. Somnium. Lusus in nostri aevi Criticos, written in Latin by the famous Dutch humanist Iustus Lipsius and published in Antwerp in 1581. This work reintroduces the Greco-Roman genre ofMenippean satire. Then I will provide plausible explanations of the textual and ideological influences that Lipsius’ text could have had on Quevedo’s final passage of Sueño de la muerte, in which a series of folkloric characters rise up and argue against the incorrect and malicious ways that the living make use of them. That passage is refered to here as «La rebelión de los personajes del refranero».
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