“El sentido de ‘barranco’ en La Perinola de Quevedo y en otros textos del siglo de oro.” In Docta y Sabia Atenea. Studia in Honorem Lía Schwartz. Ed. S. López Poza et al. A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña, 2019. 653-669.
Based on an analysis of 74 manuscripts of Francisco de Quevedo’s La Perinola (1632), this paper offers an emendation of the word «varraco», which appears in all editions of the text, but should read «Barranco». This paper shows that the meaning of «Barranco» derives from an area of Madrid, in Lavapiés, known as «Barranco» street or neighborhood, populated by prostitutes in the early 17th century. A review of other texts by Quevedo and his contemporaries in which the word «Barranco» appears shows that it can be understood to mean ‘area of prostitution’, something that critics have overlooked.