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3 unusual facts about José Cadalso


José Cadalso

The Cartas marruecas have often been compared to Montesquieu's, (1689–1755), own Lettres Persanes, (Persian Letters, 1721), although in reality both works represented the period's fascination with epistolary narrative.

Cadalso was killed at the Great Siege of Gibraltar, on 27 February 1782, just 15 days after being promoted to Colonel.

Born in Cádiz on 8 October 1741, was killed, aged 41, while fighting in the Great Siege of Gibraltar in 1782.



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Spanish Enlightenment literature

By influence of José Cadalso and Meléndez, more recharged and colorist poems were written than in the Salmantine school, also influenced by Fernando de Herrera.