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- Title
Sobre «la impresión del grifo». El trasfondo de unos pasajes quevedianos.
- Authors
Álvarez de Miranda, Pedro
- Abstract
Repeatedley (up to four times), Francisco de Quevedo uses, somewhat enigmatically, the sentence «the impression of griffin». For example, he says that an old woman had «a face of the impression of the griffin»; also he wrote of a go-between that «she made a gesture of the impression of the griphon». This expression was rightly explained by Luisa López Grigera as a reference to the image of the griffin which appeared engraved on the title page of the books printed in Lyon by Sébastien Griphe, and whose face was similar in ugliness to the one of an old woman. This article carefully searches the trajectory of this sentence, which was close to becoming lexicalized in our language, and adds to the Quevedo's examples others unknown.
- Subjects
LYON (France); BOOK titles; GESTURE
- Publication
Perinola, 2021, Issue 25, p139
- ISSN
1138-6363
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15581/017.25.139-151