José de Vargas Ponce

The Most Excellent José de Vargas
Portrait by Goya, 1805
Born	José de Vargas Ponce (1760-06-10)10 June 1760 Cádiz, Spain
Died	6 February 1821(1821-02-06) (aged 60) Madrid, Spain
Seat K of the Real Academia Española
In office March 1814 – 6 February 1821
Preceded by	Antonio de Porlier
Succeeded by	Juan Bautista Arriaza

José de Vargas Ponce (Cádiz, 10 June 1760 – 6 February 1821) was a Spanish erudite, satirical poet and writer.

He was elected to seat K of the Real Academia Española, he took up his seat in March 1814.^[1]

Works

• Praise of Alfonso the Wise, 1782.
• Descriptions of the Islands and Balearic Pithiusas, 1787.
• Declamation on abuses introduced into the Castilian, presented and awarded at the Spanish Academy, 1791.
• Proclamation of a bachelor, 1827, burlesque poem in octaves.
• Dissertation on bullfighting, written in 1807 and published in London, by the Royal Academy of History in 1961.
• Description of Cartagena, Murcia, 1978
• Lucio Marineo Siculus Life
• Abdalaziz and Egilona, neoclassical tragedy.

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