Note 161 — Chapter XXXVI

Baena, Tom. III. p. 157. I own the ninth edition of “Para Todos,” Alcalá, 1661, 4to. Quevedo seems to have borne some personal ill-will against Montalvan, whom he calls “a little remnant of Lope de Vega,” and says his “Para Todos” is “like the coach from Alcalá to Madrid, full of all sorts of passengers, including the worst.” (Obras, Tom. XI. p. 129.) Quevedo does not appear among those who in 1639 offered verses or other tributes to the memory of Montalvan, though their number is above a hundred and fifty, and includes, I think, nearly or quite every other Spanish author of any note then living. See “Lágrimas Panegyricas en la Muerte de Montalvan,” 1639.