Vida, ascendencia, nacimiento, crianza y aventuras

…is now remembered for his Vida, picaresque memoirs that are among the best sources for information on life in 18th-century Spain.

…Diego de Torres Villarroel, whose Vida, ascendencia, nacimiento, crianza y aventuras (1743–58; “Life, Ancestry, Birth, Upbringing, and Adventures”), whether a novel or an autobiography, remains among the century’s most readable narratives. Torres Villarroel experimented with all literary genres, and his collected works, published 1794–99, are fertile sources for studying 18th-century…