biography
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Sánchez Barbero, Francisco
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pronunciation:
[sancheth bah(r)bay
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| male
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| lived:
| (1764–1819)
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| biography:
| Poet and scholar, born in Moriñigo, Salamanca, W Spain. He soon abandoned his religious studies, preferring the secular poetry of the School of Salamanca, and becoming a member of the circle which included Meléndez Valdés, Jovellanos, and Forner. He founded El Constitucional in Madrid and came into conflict with the absolutist regime of Fernando VII, who confined him first for 19 months, during which Sánchez completed a new Latin grammar, and later gave him a sentence of 10 years, during which he died. Principios de retórica y poética (1805) departs from the ideas of Luzán in declaring individual passions and imaginations to be the sources of true eloquence, and in preferring Filangieri's ideas to those of the French neoclassical preceptists favoured by Luzán. His Saúl: melodrama sacro was inspired by Vittorio Alfieri and his tragedy Coriolano by Shakespeare's play. The posthumously-published Ensayos satíricos en verso y prosa por el Licenciado Machuca (1820) included his satire on the Inquisition in the form of a parody of Garcilaso: ‘La muerte de la Inquisición: Égloga sepulcral. Flanesio y Rancinoso’. |
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