FRANCISCO AYALA AND ENRIQUE TIERNO GALVÁN, SAAVEDRA READERS

Authors

  • Jorge Novella Suárez

Keywords:

Saavedra Fajardo, Francisco Ayala, Tierno Galván, Counter-Reformation, Tacitus, tacitism, 17th century

Abstract

The author sets out the readings that Francisco Ayala and Enrique Tierno Galván did of Saavedra Fajardo’s work. He discovers a common idea: same diagnosis on the role of Counter-Reformation in Spain. The different issues both of them focused on are also displayed: as Francisco Ayala wonders about Saavedra Fajardo’s significance and topicality, Tierno Galván read the baroque author from a 17th-century political implicitness.