One of these two poets wrote that the other’s farts “sing like sirens,” and bought over the other’s house just to evict him from it. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these two poets, champions of duelling poetic styles that respectively focused on conciseness and ornamentation. One of them wrote that the other’s nose resembled a “swordfish with an awful beard.”
ANSWER: Luis de Góngora AND Francisco de Quevedo [accept answers in either order; accept Luis de Góngora y Argote in place of “Luis de Góngora”; accept Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas in place of “Francisco de Quevedo”]
[10h] Quevedo mocked the red hair of a dramatist with this last name, whose play La verdad sospechosa inspired Corneille’s The Liars. Another author with this last name wrote The Three-Cornered Hat.
ANSWER: Alarcón [accept Juan Ruiz de Alarcón; accept Pedro Antonio de Alarcón or Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza]
[10e] Góngora and Quevedo both wrote during this historical period. Spanish literature flourished during this period, which ended in the mid 1600s.
ANSWER: Spanish Golden Age [or Golden Century; or Siglo de Oro]
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