ABSTRACT
Quevedo's neostoic ideology probably took shape in his youth, that is, in the early years of the seventeenth century, if we consider those fragmentary clues to be found in his correspondence with Lipsius (1604—05), the poems of Heráclito cristiano (1613) and the writing of his first Sueños (1603—08). The moral treatises discussed in the previous chapter seem to have been composed later. If this is indeed the case, we arrive at the conclusion that Quevedo began to show his stoic convictions first through fictional literature, and specifically Lucianesque satire, and only at a later stage in his life did he decide to do so through theoretical essays of a monographic kind, perhaps with the aim of expounding with greater firmness convictions which in the Lucianesque satires are somewhat diminished by doubt and irony.
