Juan del Valle y Caviedes

thumb|right|Be careful then, patients,and don’t accept any doctor;die for free and do not givea single coin to medicine. Juan del Valle y Caviedes (11 April 1645 – 1697) was a Peruvian poet. Quotes Y así, enfermos, ojo alerta y ningún médico admitan; mueran de gorra sin dar un real a la medicina. Be careful then, patients,and don’t accept any doctor;die for free and do not givea single coin to medicine. Diente del Parnaso ('Parnassus' Tooth') (1689), 'Prólogo al que leyere este tratado’. Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 1038. Quotes about Caviedes Juan del Valle y Caviedes [was one] of the brightest, most refreshing figures in the infant New World literature of the seventeenth century. [He was] impressive and [a] multi-faceted [talent], ...a biting satirist, as well as a tender lyricist, and [he] gave evidence of sincere and deeply held religious convictions. ...[He was] judged to be among the most outstanding literary figures of [his] age. [His poetry] exhibits a vitality and diversity seldom found in the often excessively ornate and obscure Baroque poetry then in vogue. INTI. (University of Connecticut. Dept. of Romance and Classical Languages) (1974), Providence College, p. 134. External links Category:Poets from Spain Category:1645 births Category:1697 deaths Category:Poets from Peru Category:People from Andalusia