Abstract
The image of the wheel of fortune, with its moral implications, was very common from the Middle Ages. This was also true for its grotesque counterpart which had at its top a king in the shape of a donkey representing the vanity of human aspirations. Francisco de Quevedo followed this iconographical typology in one of his burlesque sonnets, where he used different visual and literary sources. Quevedo's text is an open critique of the negative effect that power has on mankind.
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