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JOSE MARCHENA RUIZ DE CASTRO (1768-18...

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 690 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARCHENA See also:RUIZ DE See also:CASTRO (1768-1821?)  , See also:Spanish author, was See also:born at See also:Utrera on the l8th of See also:November 1768 and studied with distinction at the university of See also:Seville . He took See also:minor orders and was for some See also:time See also:professor at the See also:seminary of Vergara, but he became a convert to the doctrines of the See also:French philosophes, scandalizing his acquaintances by his professions of See also:materialism and his denunciations of See also:celibacy . His writings being brought before the See also:Inquisition in 1792, See also:Marchena escaped to See also:Paris, where he is said to have collaborated with See also:Marat in L'Ami du peuple; at a later date he organized a revolutionary See also:movement at See also:Bayonne, returned to Paris, avowed his sympathies with the See also:Girondists, and refused the advances of See also:Robespierre . He acted as editor of L'Ami See also:des leis and other French See also:journals till 1799, when he was expelled from See also:France; he succeeded, however, in obtaining employment under See also:Moreau, upon whose fall in 1804 he declared himself a Bonapartist . In 18o8 he accompanied See also:Murat to See also:Spain as private secretary; in this same See also:year he was imprisoned by the Inquisition, but was released by See also:Joseph See also:Bonaparte, who appointed him editor of the See also:official Gaceta . In 1813 Marchena retired to See also:Valencia, and thence to France, where he supported himself by translating into Spanish the See also:works of See also:Montesquieu, See also:Rousseau, See also:Voltaire and See also:Volney . The Liberal See also:triumph of 182o opened Spain to him once more, but he was coldly received by the revolutionary party . He died at See also:MARCHES See also:Madrid shortly before the 26th of See also:February 1821 . The See also:interest of his voluminous writings is almost wholly ephemeral, but they are excellent specimens of trenchant journalism . His Fragmentum Petronii (See also:Basel, 1802), which purports to reconstruct missing passages in the current See also:text of See also:Petronius, is a testimony to Marchena's See also:fine scholarship; but, by the See also:irony of See also:fate, Marchena is best known by his See also:ode to See also:Christ Crucified, which breathes a spirit of profound and See also:tender piety .

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