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JOSE FRANCISCO DE ISLA (1703-1781)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 873 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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, 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) . (J .

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