QUEVEDO'S FORTUNE IN HER WITS. Tr. by Stevens, 1697.
QUEVEDO'S COMICAL WORKS. Tr. by Capt. Stevens, 1707.
'He is said to have resembled Voltaire in his talent for ridicule and his versatility. He suffered much political persecution'.
[1] One of the 'picaresque or rogue' novels, of which 'Jack Wilton' by Nash was the first example in English. It was later followed by 'Moll Flanders' and 'Colonel Jack' by Defoe, the 'Joseph Andrews' of Fielding, the 'Roderick Random' and 'Peregrine Pickle' of Smollett. In the nineteenth century we find it imitated by Dumas in 'The Three Musketeers' and also in some of the later minor novelists.
QUINTILIAN. b. 35, d. 100. Roman critic and teacher of rhetoric.
HIS INSTITUTES OF ELOQUENCE.... With notes critical and Explanatory. By Wm. Guthrie, 1756.
THE DECLAMATIONS OF QUINTILIAN. [Tr. by Mr. Warr.] 1686.
RABELAIS, FRANÇOIS. b. 1483, d. 1553. French satirist.
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE WORKS OF MR. F. RABELAIS ... containing five books of the Lives, etc., of Gargantua and his Sonne Pantagruel. Tr. by Sir T. Urquhart. 2 parts (1532). 1653.
PANTAGRUEL'S PROGNOSTICATION, CERTAIN, TRUE AND INFALLIBLE. Tr. by Democritus Pseudomantis. [1620.]