_Don Pablo de Segovia_ has been always popular in its native country, and has been frequently translated into other languages. Señor Guerra y Orbe notes more than forty editions of the original in Spain and in the Spanish dominions. An Italian translation, by Juan Pedro Franco, appeared in 1634 at Venice. A French version, by Geneste, was included among the burlesque works of Quevedo, translated into that language in 1641. Other early French versions are those of Lyons and of Brussels. In 1842 M. Germond de Lavigne brought out his translation of _Don Pablo_ which is spirited and readable, but a good deal changed from the original. Portions of other works by Quevedo are inserted in the text, a prologue borrowed from the _Hora de Todos_, and a conclusion added from out of the manufactory of M. Lavigne himself. In M. Lavigne's latest edition of 1882 appeared the first of M. Vierge's admirably spirited and characteristic sketches. _Don Pablo_ was early introduced into the English tongue, though it is perhaps the least known of Quevedo's works. The _Visions_, translated by the indefatigable Sir Roger L'Estrange, first appeared in 1688, and went through many editions in that and the succeeding century. The English version has the merit, which belongs to all L'Estrange's work, of being in good, sound, and vigorous language, lively and not inelegant, but it is far from faithful to the original, the translator taking great liberties with his author in the attempt to bring him up to the level of the _humour of the times_. The _Visions_ were much read and often quoted by English writers of the last century. The _Buscon_, shorn of much of his stature, was Englished by _a person of quality_ so early as 1657, with a dedication to a lady. It was still further reduced in 1683, both in size and art, though most of the grossness was left untouched. The well-known Captain John Stevens, who translated Mariana's _History_ and professed (without warrant) to improve and correct Shelton's _Don Quixote_ (which he did not do to any appreciable extent), also took Quevedo in hand, translating _Don Pablo_, among other _comical pieces_, in 1707. A new translation was given to the world in 1734 by Don Pedro Pineda, a teacher of the Spanish language, then resident in London. Pineda it was who revised the Spanish text of the splendid edition of _Don Quixote_, published at the charge of Lord Carteret in 1734, four handsome quarto volumes--the first in which print and paper did full justice to Cervantes' masterpiece. Though a person of little humour, who fell a victim to Cervantes' irony in the matter of the poet Lofraso and his _Fortuna de Amor_, Pineda was a competent Spanish scholar, at least for that age. How far his English was his own we have no means of knowing, but his _perfect knowledge of the language of the original_ recommended him to the editors of the edition of _Quevedo's Works_, published at Edinburgh in 1798, as a person fit to revise and correct