Colonel of the Royal Spanish Army
Author, poet, playwright, and essayist
He was a central figure in the literary landscape of eighteenth-century Spain
The neoclassical and the romantic coexist in it, the traditional with the intuitive
He has an agile and witty style
His acute sensitivity made him prone to pessimism and melancholy, these precursors of romantic sentiment
He was the embodiment of the Enlightenment ideal of the "hombre de bien"
