Cadalso, José De
Related Category: Spanish and Portuguese Literature: Biographies
(hōsā´ dā kä
thäl´sō), 1741–82, Spanish poet, critic, and satirist. Cadalso's rhapsodic prose autobiography,
Noches lúgubres (1798), probably suggested by Edward Young's
Night Thoughts, was a herald of the Spanish romantic movement. However, he is best known for
Los eruditos a la violeta (1772), a satire on contemporary pedantry, and
Cartas marruecas [Moroccan letters] (1793), an analysis of Spanish social decadence.
