ABSTRACT
A study of the ideology of Quevedo should probably begin with his opinions about life, death, virtue, and wisdom, because it is here that the essence of his world view can be found, based on a synthesis of stoicism and Christianity. Its clearest expression is in his moral poems and in six treatises that combine the expository freedom of Seneca and Cicero with a scholastic mode of argumentation. 1 These treatises are: Doctrina moral del conocimiento propio y desengaño de las cosas ajenas (1612?), La cuna y to sepultura. Para el conocimiento propio y desengaño de las cosas ajenas (1634), Las cuatro fantasmas de la vida (1635), Virtud militante contra las cuatro pestes del mundo (1634—37), Nomhre, origen, intento recomendación y descendencia de la doctrina estoica (1635; hereafter Doctrina estoica), and De los remedios de cualquiera fortuna (1638). 2
