El discurso fúnebre de Quevedo a la muerte del rey Gustavo Adolfo de Suecia: nuevos datos y manuscritos

Abstract

Quevedo wrote a short prose funeral speech dedicated to the Swedish monarch, who died in Lützen in 1632. The text is considered an incomplete letter with an uncertain addressee since Astrana included it in his Epistolary. The purpose of this article is to offer a critical edition of the aforementioned writing, based on five manuscripts, two of them unknown until now and located in a Portuguese archive. The study of all textual sources allows to correct some errors in the text that we know, to rule out that it is a mere fragment, as well as to qualify its dubious ascription to the epistolary genre. As a simple hypothesis in need of new inquiries, a possible relationship with Lope de Vega's letter to the same subject is raised.