José Cadalso

José Cadalso was born in Cadiz in 1741. He did part of his studies in Paris and, before the age of twenty, travelled to England, Italy and Germany. Having entered the army, he made a career in the cavalry. Author of a prose satire on false scholars, published in 1772, and of poems, he exerted an influence on young poets, among them Juan Meléndez Valdés. Promoted to colonel shortly before his death, he was killed in 1782 at the siege of Gibraltar, at the age of forty.

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• NovelCartas marruecasJosé Cadalso · 1789not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain