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Tomb of Spanish Golden Age poet Francisco de Quevedo discovered

Apr 17, 2007, 10:19 GMT

Madrid - Spanish experts have identified the remains of Golden Age poet Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), a language virtuoso and satirist who is regarded as one of the key figures of Spanish literature, media reports said Tuesday. Investigators from Madrid's Complutense University analyzed the remains of 167 people who were buried in the crypt of the San Andres church in Villanueva de los Infantes, the central Spanish town where Quevedo died. They identified Quevedo's bones on the basis of their size, height and the form of a thighbone which indicated that the person in question had been lame like Quevedo. No DNA samples were taken, because no samples were available from Quevedo's relatives to compare them to, said Jose Antonio Sanchez, head of the investigative team. Quevedo died at a cloister in Villanueva de los Infantes in 1645. His remains were buried in the crypt of a wealthy family and transferred to the San Andres church nearly a century later. The church was later torn down, and the crypt was not rediscovered until 1955. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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