Fighting It Out In a Seventeenth Century Literary Venue

José Calvo González, University of Málaga Faculty of Law, has published Quevedo en tela de juicio, o sea El Tribvnal de la ivsta vengança de Luis Pacheco de Narváez. (De contiendas literarias y Derecho en la España del s. XVII),  525 in Estudios Jurídicos en Homenaje al Profesor Alejandro Guzmán Brito, volume 1 (Patricio-Ignacio Carvajal and Massimo Miglietta eds; Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria, 2011). Here is the abstract.

The paper examines the “procedural drama” created by Luis Pacheco de Narváez (1570 - 1640) in his Tribunal de la justa venganza [Court the just vengeance] (1635) for the prosecution of literary aesthetics (and moral ideas and values) Quevedo´s [Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645)].

The uniqueness of the case in the frequent literary controversies of the time lies in the nature of judicial inquiry that was built. In this legal-procedural dimension reprimanded experiencing a profound rethinking of the semantic roles in the “production of sens” between Law and Literature/ Literature and Law.
The essay is also available online at the Italian Society for Law and Literature (ISLL) website.