Tomas de Iriarte y Oropesa (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tomas de Iriarte (or Yriarte) y Oropesa (Puerto de la Cruz, La Orotava, island of Tenerife, September 18, 1750 Madrid, September 17, 1791), was a Spanish neoclassical poet.Tomas was born to the Iriarte family, many of whose members were writers in the humanist tradition. His father was Don Bernardo de Iriarte, (1735 Puerto dela Cruz - Bordeaux, France, in exile, 1814) while his mother was Dona Barbara de las Nieves Hernandez de Oropesa.He received his literary education at Madrid where he went aged 14 in 1764 under the care of his uncle, Juan de Iriarte, (Puerto de la Cruz, 1701 - Madrid 1771), librarian to the king of Spain. In his eighteenth year the nephew began his literary career by translating French plays for the royal theatre, and in 1770, under the anagram of Tirso Imarete, he published an original comedy entitled Hacer que hacemos.