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Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Calderon
also: Кальдерон, Calderón
Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681), Spanish Golden Age playwright; the narrator's fabricated claim that Calderon "lifted" a line from Lope de Vega is a piece of confident-sounding nonsense meant to dumbfound listeners who cannot check it.
Reading notes
- In Moscow §12 Calderon lifted from Lope de Vega
A fabricated claim of literary theft between the two Spanish Golden Age playwrights, presented with false authority to "dumbfound" a listener who has no way to check it -- the narrator's habitual bluffing technique on display.