Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos
Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos (14 December 1764 – 30 June 1809) was a Spanish poet and publicist. He was born in Madrid, and studied with distinction at Salamanca, where he met the poet Melendez Valdés. His poems, published in 1798, immediately attracted attention.
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Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos
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- Born
- 14 December 1764
- Birthplace
- Madrid, Spain
- Died
- 30 June 1809
- Place of death
- Orthez, France
- Nationality
- Spain.
- Occupation
- writer, journalist, poet and playwright.
- Education
- University of Salamanca.
- Languages
- Spanish.
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He was editor of the Gaceta and Mercurio, and was condemned to death for having published an article against Napoleon; on the petition of his friends, he was spared and deported to France in 1808; he died in Orthez the following year. His verses are modeled on those of Melendez Valdés; they are distinguished by the sentimentality and philosophy of the time period. Cienfuegos was blamed for a use of both archaisms and gallicisms. His plays, Pítaco, Zoraida, La Condesa de Castilla and Idomeneo, four tragedies on the pseudo-classic French model, and Las Hermanas generosas, a comedy, are lesser-known works today.
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• Honorific Prefix — The Most Excellent • Born — 14 December 1764 • Birthplace — Madrid, Spain • Died — 30 June 1809 • Place of death — Orthez, France
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1764
Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos born at Madrid.
1809
Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos died at Orthez.
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NICASIO ALVAREZ DE CIENFUEGOS, A Critical Anthology of Spanish Verse, 1950
Nicasio Alvarez de Cienfuegos
Peripheral Reading on Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos’s Poetry, Cuadernos Dieciochistas, 2011
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