…sarcasm on his contemporaries; in El asno erudito (1782; “The Erudite Ass”) the dramatist Tomás de Iriarte and his work came under vicious attack. A ban prevented his writing more satires after 1785. His two most important works are Exequias de la lengua castellana (1795; “Exequies of the Castilian Language”),…
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