ANTONIO DE CAPMANY Y MONTPALAU (1742–1813)  , Spanish polygraph, was born at Barcelona on the 24th of November 1742 . He retired from the army in 1770, and was subsequently elected secretary of the Royal Academy of History at Madrid . His principal works are—Memorias histdricas sobre la marina, commercio, y artes de la antigua ciudad de Barcelona (4 vols . 1779–1792); Teatro hisiorico-critico de la elocuencia Espanola (1786); Filiosofia de la elocuencia (1776), and Cuestiones criticas sobre varios puntos de historia econdmica, poliitica, y militar (1807) . Capmany died at Barcelona on the 14th of November 1813 . His monograph on the history of his birthplace still preserves much of its original value .