Key Points

• Writer, philosopher, and a major figure of the Age of Enlightenment in Spain

• Actively participated in politics

• Most genuine representative of the Spanish Enlightenment

• Highly concerned with the reform of the institutions and customs of his time

• Cultured man, promoter of renovation as a solution to the problems of the Spain of his time

• Literary production encompassed theater and poetry, where he achieved relative success

Relevant Works

• La ley agraria

• Elogios

• Pelayo

• El delincuente honrado