La zurriaga: unas «octavas seriojocosas» atribuidas a Quevedo

Abstract

This article offers a modernized edition of La zurriaga, a series of «seriojocosas» (more or less burlesque) octaves attributed to Quevedo. The text, dated in 1632 in the burlesque preliminaries, was considered apocryphal by different editors, who proposed the eighteenth century as the time of composition and considered it a mere forgery of the Count of Saceda. Such disqualification implied the total oblivion of these verses, hitherto unknown. The transcription of the work, with limited philological annotation, is preceded by an explanation of the features and content of the factitious volume in which it is preserved, in the Royal Academy of History (Madrid). The analysis of genre, style and date, in relation to Quevedo’s literature, does not allow for the extraction of conclusive evidence about authorship and date, but it does allow for some previous statements about this printed work to be brought into question.