Some insights into the dialogue between Francisco de Quevedo and Antonio Enriquez Gomez's La torre de Babilonia

This study focuses on Antonio Enriquez Gomez's literary tributes to the work of Francisco de Quevedo. His references to the author of Suenos reveal many artistic affinities, visible for example in El siglo pitagorico y Vida de don Gregorio Guadana, in La Inquisicion de Lucifer and, most of all, in La torre de Babilonia. Sometimes even Enriquez Gomez tries to reiterate and rework Quevedo's procedures, although without reaching his originality and ingenuity. Beyond the social distance and ideological divergences between the authors, in La torre de Babilonia Enriquez Gomez reworks and transforms Quevedo's material, especially the figure and role of the necromancer Marquis of Villena in the Sueno del infierno. The relationship between La torre de Babilonia and Suenos needs a more detailed and comprehensive work than has been done to date. In particular, it calls for an analysis between the Politica de Dios, gobierno de Cristo and the two issues of the Politica angelica, whose title seems already to be a copy of the one used by Quevedo.