"La República de Venecia..." (1617) y el "Castigo essemplare de' calunniatori" (1618): ¿una contienda político-literaria entre Quevedo y Castellani?

This report aims to show the proceeding by which the Hispano-Venetian political and literary debate, born as a consecuence of successful Boccalini's Pietra di paragone politico, reduces itself to a sharp personal controversy between Francisco de Quevedo and Giacomo Castellani with their "avisos de Parnaso" titled La Republica de Venecia llega al Parnaso ... and the Castigo esemplare de' calunniatori respectively. After drawing the rippled cultural and political panorama that gave rise to the intense para-literature between pro-Savoyard and philo-Spanish where the two above-mentioned libels are inserted, this work attentively analyses the three texts written by Castellani as an answer to the anti-Venetian aviso ascribed to Quevedo: Annotationi, Allegatione and Castigo esemplare .... In this way it comes to underline, first of all, its declared anti-Spanish purpose and, secondly, its progressive transformation in a personal attack against Francisco de Quevedo. Finally it ends by proving the presence in Castellani's pamphlet, behind an effective satirical and parodical texture, of a real denunciation of Quevedo's involvement in the culminant event of the early seventeenth century Hispano-Venetian dispute: the conspiracy of Venice of 1618 Ascension-day.