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IRIARTE (or YRIARTE) Y OROPESA, TOMAS DE (1750-1791) , See also: Spanish poet, was See also: born on the 18th of See also: September 1750, at Orotava in the See also: island of See also: Teneriffe, and received his See also: literary See also: education at See also: Madrid under the care of his See also: uncle, Juan de Iriarte, librarian to the See also: king of
See also: Spain
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In his eighteenth See also: year the See also: nephew began his literary career by translating French plays for the royal theatre, and in 1770, under the anagram of Tirso Imarete, he published an See also: original See also: comedy entitled Hacer que kace2nos
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In the following year he became official translator at the See also: foreign office, and in 1776 keeper of the records in the war department
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In 178o appeared a dull didactic poem in cilvas entitled La Mitsica, which attracted some See also: attention in See also: Italy as well as at home
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The Fdbulas literarias (1781), with which his name is most intimately associated, are composed in a See also: great variety of metres, and show considerable ingenuity in their humorous attacks on literary men and methods; but their merits have been greatly exaggerated
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During his later years, partly in consequence of the Fdbulas, Iriarte was absorbed in See also: personal controversies, and in 1786 was reported to the Inquisition for his sympathies with the French philosophers
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He died on the 17th of September 1791
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Iie is the subject of an exhaustive monograph (1897) by Emilio Cotarelo y Mori
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