El romance satírico burlesco «Gobernando están el mundo» (Parnaso, 470): censura moral, risa y Humanismo

French, Italian, and Spanish Humanists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries criticized the corrupt morals of their societies. Philiph IV and his favourite, the Count-Duke of Olivares, established the «Junta de Reformación» in 1623 in order to eliminate the corruption. The Spanish Humanist Quevedo wrote a ballad between 1623 and 1627 to satirize some of the vices of the Spanish Society of the seventeenth century: excessive spending in attires, exorbitant dowries, women's venality, husbands cuckolded. For this satire he used the classical topic of the world upside down, and he created character, a gallician who liked to drink in excess, to tell the truth.