Writer, diplomat, and politician
One of the most cultured Spaniards of his time
Had a great knowledge of the Greco-Latin classics
Read and wrote in Spanish, French, Italian, English and German.
Moderate liberal, tolerant, and skeptical of religion.
Mainly cultivated storytelling, epistolography and essays
His style is characterized by an idealized aestheticism
Epicurean, cultured and ironic, fond of philosophy
