Los cigarrales de la privanza y el mecenazgo en Tirso de Molina (2016)

The topic of this monograph is the interconnection between representations of male friendship, economic patronage systems, and privado political thought in the first published book by Tirso de Molina, his Cigarrales de Toledo. Los cigarrales del mecenazgo is based on archival research and offers an unprecedented study of the Pimentel family’s role in Tirso’s life. It focuses on Tirso de Molina’s most astonishing patron, Don Luís Suero de Quiñones y Acuña, and on the symbolic presence of the language of patronage and the debate of privanza in the production of art during the reign of Philip III.