La coleccion de silvas de Quevedo. Propuesta de inventario

Quevedo was the only Spanish writer who composed a sequence of silvae in imitation of Statius. This sequence was published in Las tres musas últimas (1670), fifteen years after the author's death. Although this posthumous edition has some inconsistencies and wrong attributions, it offers the most reliable source for a critical edition. However, modern editors of Quevedo's poetry have modified its arrangement by removing some of the poems and transferring them to other sections, thus imposing a thematic criterion upon a formerly classical unit. The aim of the present article is to reconstruct the original corpus of Quevedo's silvas.