El discurso histórico quevediano y el inicio de la Guerra de los Treinta Años: Mundo caduco y desvarios de la edad

Abstract

Quevedo wrote his Mundo caduco y desvarios de la eaWbetween 1621 and 1623. It is a historical text that details the first batdes of the Thirty Years War, in which the Republic of Venice played an important role. In this text, the writer uses the historiographical concepts which were established by classic historians, such as Thucydides or Cornelius Tacitus, and which were brought back by Italian humanists like Leonardo Bruni: contemporaneousness, accuracy, impartiality, proximity between the narrative and the historian. The two aspects that this article focuses on are nationalism and religion. Quevedo presents a nationalistic and religious vision of the military conflict, in which he emphasizes the mission of the Spanish monarchs as defenders of the Catholic religion and the supremacy of the Habsburgs in Spain.