Question
The treatise The Art of Ingenuity defined a poetic ideal from this country as “an act of the understanding that expresses the correspondence between objects,” contrasting with a rival’s “cultivated Lutheranism.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country where two opposing poetic styles developed in the 17th century. A poet from this country who used one of those styles attacked a rival who used the other by comparing his large nose to a swordfish.
ANSWER: Spain [or España]
[10e] Francisco de Quevedo displayed the epigrammatic conceptismo style in an essay collection titled for these things. Segismundo takes the Polish throne in Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play titled Life is [one of these things].
ANSWER: dreams [or sueños; accept Life is a Dream or La vida es sueño; accept visions]
[10h] Quevedo and this author of The Art of Ingenuity championed conceptismo. This Jesuit priest wrote The Art of Worldly Wisdom and the novel El Criticón.
ANSWER: Baltasar Gracián [or Baltasar Gratian]
<HG, European Literature>
Summary
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| Louisville A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | Alabama A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |