JOSE FRANCISCO DE See also:ISLA (1703-1781)
, See also:Spanish satirist, was See also:born at Villavidanes (See also:Leon) on the 24th of See also:March 1703
.
He joined the See also:Jesuits in 1719, was banished from See also:Spain with his brethren in 1767, and settled at See also:Bologna, where he died on the 2nd of See also:November 1781
.
His earliest publication, a Carta de un residente en See also:Roma (1725), is apanegyric of trifling See also:interest, and La Juventud triunf ante (1727) was written in collaboration with Luis de Lovada
.
See also:Isla's gifts were first shown in his Triunfo del amor y de la lealtad: Dia Grande de Navarra, a satirical description of the ceremonies at See also:Pamplona in See also:honour of See also:Ferdinand VI.'s See also:accession; its sly See also:humour so far escaped the victims that they thanked the writer for his appreciation of their See also:local efforts, but the true significance of the See also:work was discovered shortly afterwards, and the protests were so violent that Isla was transferred by his superiors to another See also:district
.
He gained a See also:great reputation as an effective preacher, and his See also:posthumous Sermones morales (1792—1793) justify his fame in this respect
.
But his position in the See also:history of Spanish literature is due to his Historia del famoso predicador fray Gerundio de Campazas, See also:alias Zotes (1758), a novel which wittily caricatures the bombastic eloquence of See also:pulpit orators in Spain
.
Owing to the protests of the See also:Dominicans and other regulars, the See also:book was prohibited in 1760, but the second See also:part was issued surreptitiously in 1768
.
He translated Gil Blas, adopting more or less seriously See also:Voltaire's unfounded See also:suggestion that Le See also:Sage plagiarized from See also:Espinel's Marcos de Obregon, and other Spanish books; the See also:text appeared in 1783, and in 1828 was greatly modified by Evaristo Pena y See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin, whose arrangement is still widely read
.
See Policarpo Mingote y Tarrazona, Varones ilustres de la provincia de Leon (Leon, 1880), pp
.
185-215; See also:Bernard Gaudeau, See also:Les Precheurs burlesques en Espagne au X VIIIe siecle (See also:Paris, 1891) ; V
.
Cian, L'Immigrazione dei Gesuiti spagnuoli letterati in Italia (Torino, 1895)
.
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