De sene Veronensi: Quevedo, Lope y Góngora ante un epigrama de Claudiano.

This paper examines the survival of an epigram by the Latin poet Claudius Claudian (De sene Veronensi or The old man of Verona) in the letters of Spanish Golden Age. The influence of the Alexandrian writer is analyzed through the traces left in the works of most brilliant writers of Hispanic Baroque: Quevedo, Lope and Góngora. The study of the versions of the imitatio provides important data about the interests and stylistic entena of these three authors. Thus, Francisco de Quevedo presents an exact generic equivalent, as the sonnet To a friend who retired from the court passed its age is raised vernacular equivalent of the epigram. For its part, Lope de Vega rewrites late-antique text and inserts it into the monologue of a proud rustic character (Juan Labrador), main character of the comedy El villano en su rincón. Finally, Luis de Góngora encrusted several verses of the epigram in a speech in a direct style pronounced by the wandering Pilgrim in the Soledad segunda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]