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JUAN BAUTISTA PABLO FORNER (1756-1799) , See also: Spanish satirist and See also: scholar, was See also: born at Merida (Badajoz) on the 23rd of See also: February 1756, studied at the university of Salamanca, and was called to the See also: bar at See also: Madrid in 1783
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During the next few years—under the pseudonyms of Tome Cecial," Pablo Segarra,'' " See also: Don Antonio Varas," " Bartolo," " Pablo Ignocausto," " El Bachiller Reganadientes," and " Silvio Liberio "—Forner was engaged in a series of polemics with Garcia de la Huerta, Iriarte and other writers; the violence of his attacks was so extreme that he was finally forbidden to publish any controversial See also: pamphlets, and was transferred to a legal See also: post at Seville
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In 1796 he became See also: crown prosecutor at Madrid, where he died on the 17th of See also: March 1799
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Forner's brutality is almost unexampled, and his satirical writings give a false impression of his
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His OraciOn apologetica See also: par la Espana y su Write literario (1787) is an excellent example of learned advocacy, far See also: superior to similar efforts made by Denina and Antonio See also: Cavanilles; and his See also: posthumous Exequias de la lengua castellana (printed in the Biblioteca de autores espanoles, vol. lxiii.) testifies to his scholarship and taste
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