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Between the lines of the «Isla de los Monopantos», libel number XXXIX included by Francisco de Quevedo in his work La hora de todos, we can find a quote that seems extracted from St Jerome’s «Commentary on Isaiah»; this interpretation was pondered after the reading of the second chapter of the Política de Dios, in which Quevedo exhibits a similar re-elaborated version to the passages of St Jerome. This article proposes its confutation; starting from the analysis of the quote, we assert Ruperto of Deutz as the direct influence of Quevedo’s transcript, the same reference source that was used by the author for the writing of Homilía a la Santísima Trinidad and Sobre las palabras que dijo Christo á su santísima Madre en las bodas de Caná de Galilea. Lastly, a further contribution is determined by the Annals of Jacques Salian, vastly handled by Quevedo during his literary activity; in these compilations which include Ruperto’s works, it’s possible to discover crucial passages for the support of this analysis.

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From Homage to Quevedo (1969) of the Mexican artist Jose Luis Cuevas, I present the question of the game in Francisco de Quevedo, and, especially, in the illustrations that have inspired J. L. Cuevas. I put special attention in the rewritings of Quevedo’s universe in the drawings of J. L. Cuevas. I use critical and methodological references inspired in structuralism, formalism and constructivism, to that I add the contributions of Hans Belting, George Didi-Hubermann, W. J. T. Mitchell, and of the philosophers of postmodernism like G. Deleuze or J. Derrida.

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The Devotion of the Cross and The Purgatory of Saint Patrick are a good example of the continuous exercise of the interest that Calderón shows for auto-rewriting and use of own materials. Certainly, these two religious comedies share the turn to repentance from a sinner, the central presence of the symbol of the cross, the miracle of the soul that does not abandon the body and allows the salvation and the design of the comic agent. In short, it is a case that reveals some of the dramatic keys of the poet and his effort of perfection between different works.