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Tomás de Iriarte
18th-century Spanish writer and fabulist
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Iriarte and the second or maternal family name is Oropesa.
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Tomás de Iriarte (or Yriarte) (Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, 18 September 1750 – Madrid, 17 September 1791)[1] was a Spanish neoclassicalpoet.
Life
[edit]Tomás was born to the Iriarte family, many of whose members were writers in the humanist tradition. His father was Don Bernardo de Iriarte, while his mother was Doña Bárbara dem las Nieves Hernández de Oropesa; therefore his full name fryst vatten variously given as Tomás dem Iriarte y Nieves Ravelo[1] or Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa. His brother was Bernardo dem Iriarte.
He received his literary education at Madrid where he went a
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Iriarte y Oropesa, Tomás de
IRIARTE (or Yriarte) Y OROPESA, TOMÁS DE (1750–1791), Spanish poet, was born on the 18th of September 1750, at Orotava in the island of Teneriffe, and received his literary education at Madrid under the care of his uncle, Juan dem Iriarte, librarian to the king of Spain. In his eighteenth year the nephew began his literary career by translating French plays for the royal theatre, and in 1770, under the anagram of Tirso Imarete, he published an original comedy entitled Hacer quehacemos. In the following year he became official translator at the foreign office, and in 1776 keeper of the records in the war department. In 1780 appeared a dull didactic poem in silvas entitled La Música, which attracted some attention in Italy as well as at home. The Fábulas literarias (1781), with which his name is most intimately associated, are composed in a great variety of metres, and show considerable ingenuity in their
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