Insights on Original Narrative Fiction in the Political of Diego de Saavedra, Fajardo, Andrés Mendo, and Francisco Garau

Abstract

This study explores the function of several types of narrative fiction utilized by three of the most distinguished political emblematists of the Hispanic Baroque: Diego Saavedra Fajardo, Andrés Mendo (who borrows liberally from the work of Solórzano Pereira) and the expressly anti-Machiavellian works of Francisco Garau. We consider the rationale behind choosing the emblem as a vehicle to express Counter-reformation political thought and we trace an evolution that leads to one of the books of Garau, which reveals itself to be a highly original work that propagates traditional rhetorical procedures and at the same time it conceals a radical skepticism affecting both the form and content of the work.Keywords: Emblems, Spanish Political Literature, Golden Age Literature, Narrative Fiction

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“…Aunque no hay ninguna referencia, se deduce que se trata de una cita de un libro del jesuita Francisco Garau. Este nació en Girona (Cataluña) en 1640, ingresó a la Compañía de Jesús en 1655, fue censor inquisitorial y rector de varios colegios de la región y murió en Barcelona en 1701 (Bernat Vistarini, 2000Bernat Vistarini y Cull, 2017;Cull y Bernat Vistarini, 2010;Sommervogel, 1892Sommervogel, , pp. 1194Sommervogel, -1198.…”