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JOSE CADALSO VAZQUEZ (1741-1782)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 927 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSE CADALSO VAZQUEZ (1741-1782)  ,

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

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