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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 793 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 See also:Iriarte, librarian to the See also:king of See also:Spain . In his eighteenth See also:year the See also:nephew began his literary career by translating See also:French plays for the royal See also:theatre, and in 1770, under the See also:anagram of Tirso Imarete, he published an See also:original See also:comedy entitled Hacer que kace2nos . In the following year he became See also:official translator at the See also:foreign See also:office, and in 1776 keeper of the records in the See also:war See also:department . 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 See also:home . 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 . 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 See also:Inquisition for his sympathies with the French philosophers . He died on the 17th of September 1791 . Iie is the subject of an exhaustive monograph (1897) by Emilio Cotarelo y Mori .

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