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JOSE CADALSO VAZQUEZ (1741-1782) , See also:Spanish author, was See also:born at See also:Cadiz on the 8th of See also:October 1741 . Before completing his twentieth See also:year he had travelled through See also:Italy, See also:Germany, See also:England, See also:France and See also:Portugal, and had studied the literatures of these countries . On his return to See also:Spain he entered the See also:army and See also:rose to the See also:rank of See also:colonel . He was killed at the See also:siege of See also:Gibraltar, on the 27th of See also:February 1782 . His first published See also:work was a rhymed tragedy, See also:Don Sancho See also:Garcia, See also:Conde de Castilla (1771) . In the following year he published his Eruditos k la Violeta, a See also:prose See also:satire on superficial knowledge, which was very successful . In 1773 appeared a See also:volume of See also:miscellaneous poems, Ocios de mi juventud, and after his See also:death there was found among his See also:MSS. a See also:series of fictitious letters in the See also:style of the Lettres Persanes; these were issued in 1793 under the See also:title of Cartas marruecas . A See also:good edition of his See also:works appeared at See also:Madrid, in 3 vols., 1823 . This is supplemented by the Obras ineditas (See also:Paris, 1894) published by R . Foulche-Delbosc . |
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