Quevedo, Lope y la mujer fea

Lope and Quevedo know each other and go to the same artistic circles of Madrid; as far as concerning satire, critics tend to consider the first one as a disciple of the second one, even if Lope is quite older than don Francisco. Nevertheless, a relevant series of grotesque portraits of ugly women, that we can find both in Lope's poetry and theater from the beginnings of his artistic career, could have influenced Quevedo's writing together with innumerable other sources. Therefore, Lope too could be surprisingly considered, to some extent, a model for Quevedo's depiction of the ugly and old woman, which is a leitmotif of his unbeatable satirical writing.