Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa
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Tomás de Iriarte (or Yriarte) y Oropesa (Puerto de la Cruz, La Orotava, island of Tenerife, 18 September 1750 – Madrid, 17 September 1791), was a Spanish neoclassical poet.
Life
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 de las Nieves Hernández de Oropesa. His brother was Bernardo de Iriarte
He received his literary education at Madrid where he went aged 14, in 1764, under the care of his uncle,
The Fábulas literarias (1782), with which his name is most intimately associated, are composed in a variety of metres, and was known for humorous attacks on literary men and methods,[1] as was the case repeatedly, with Juan Bautista Pablo Forner (1756–97).[citation needed]
During his later years, partly as a consequence of the Fábulas, Iriarte was entangled in personal controversies, and in 1786 was reported to the
at Madrid, 17 September 1791, aged only 41.He is the subject of an monograph (1897) by Emilio Cotarelo y Mori,[1] (Vegadeo, 1 May 1857 – Madrid, 27 January 1936), member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
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References
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- B. A. Boggs, "La música, poema por Tomás de Iriarte. A Critical Edition", Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta (2007), 275 pages.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Iriarte y Oropesa, Tomás de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 793. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- E. Cotrelo y Mori, Iriarte y su época, Madrid, (1897), 588 pages.
- R. M. Cox, Tomas de Iriarte, Twayne Publ., New York, (1972), 161 pages.
- D. M. Guigoy y Costa, El Puerto de la Cruz y los Iriarte, Tenerife, (1945), 310 pages.
- Didier and Denise Ozanam, Les Diplomats espagnols du XVIII siecle: introduction et repertoire biographique (1700–1808), Ed. Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, (1998), 578 pages, ISBN 2-909596-15-X.
External links
- Fábulas Literarias Fábulas Literarias complete (Spanish)
- Works by Tomás de Iriarte at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa at Internet Archive