José Cadalso
José Cadalso y Vázquez de Andrade (born October 8, 1741 in Cádiz , † February 26, 1782 in Gibraltar ) was a Spanish writer .
Life
José Cadalso y Vázquez was born in Cádiz; the mother died in childbirth and the father, who was in America on business, did not meet the son until 13 years later. His uncle Mateo Vázquez, a Jesuit, took care of the boy's upbringing and sent him to Paris to study . When his father returned, José followed him to London, later to Italy, Germany, Holland and finally to Spain, where he entered the Seminario de Nobles in Madrid . He died at the age of 40 during the siege of Gibraltar .
plant
As a satirist, José Cadalso attacked in Los eruditos a la violeta, first published in 1772, the superficiality of an education that replaces serious studies with talkative amateurism.
prose
- Defensa de la nación española contra la carta persiana LXXVIII de Montesquieu (around 1768).
- Los eruditos a la violeta (1772)
- Cartas Marruecas (1773, only published 1789)
- Noches lúgubres (1771/72, published 1789–90)
- Memoria de los acontecimientos más particulares de mi vida (autobiography)
drama
- Solaya o los circasianos (tragedy)
- Don Sancho García (1771) (tragedy)
Web links
- Literature by and about José Cadalso in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (some works in Spanish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cadalso, José |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cadalso y Vázquez de Andrade, José (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1741 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cadiz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1782 |
| Place of death | Gibraltar |