Tomás de Iriarte

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Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa

Tomás de Iriarte (or Yriarte ) y Oropesa (born September 18, 1750 in La Orotava (today Puerto de la Cruz ), Tenerife ; † September 17, 1791 in Madrid ) was a Spanish Enlightenment poet .

life and work

Tomás de Iriarte came from an educated family of writers. His parents were Bernado de Iriarte and his wife Barbara de las Nievas de Oropesa . He had various brothers including Bernado and Domingo who made careers in the diplomatic service.

At the age of 13 he was sent to Madrid to study with his uncle, the humanist and royal librarian Juan de Iriarte (1701–1771). At the age of 18 he began to translate French dramas for the royal theater and thus laid the foundation for his literary career. In 1770 he published his own comedy called Tirso Imarete , an anagram of his name, called Hacer que hacemos .

In the 1770s Iriarte worked as the official translator for the State Secretariat, and since 1776 also as an archivist . As a man of letters in Madrid he led a cultivated life, was, as was customary in his time, involved in literary disputes and kept in contact with intellectual circles. He became known abroad in 1780 through La música , a didactic poem. He achieved fame in 1782 with his Fábulas literarias , a collection of fables set in verse , which, contrary to their traditional intentions, contained no morality, but were conceived as a treatise on classical-ancient theories.

Tomás de Iriartes work is assigned to literary classicism ; his style is characterized by sobriety and a satirical to critical tone. It inspired the Spanish poet Félix María Samaniego (1745–1801) to write his Fábulas morales , written between 1781 and 1784.

Iriarte got into personal conflicts , not least because of his literary fables , and was reported to the Spanish Inquisition in 1786 . He died of gout at the age of 41 .

literature

  • Emilio Cotarelo y Mori: Iriarte y su época . Madrid 1897. Digitized
  • Gero von Wilpert : Lexicon of world literature . Volume I. Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-520-80703-3 , p. 715.
  • Merrit Cox, Tomas de Iriarte , 1972

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personal data
SURNAME Iriarte, Tomás de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH La Orotava , Tenerife
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1791
Place of death Madrid