Spanish writer known for his Cartas marruecas (1793; "Moroccan Letters") in which a Moorish traveller in Spain makes penetrating criticisms of Spanis life.
Educated in Madrid, Cadalso travelled widely, and although he hated war, his patriotism caused him to enlist in the army against the Portuguese during the Seven Years War.
His prose satire Los euridtos a la violeta (1772; "Wise Men Without Learning") directed against the pseudo-learned, was his most popular work.
Cadalso was influenced by the classics, as seen in his neoclassical drama Sancho García (1771) and his anacreontic verse (a convivial and amatory verse named after the Greek poet Anacreon) in Ocios de mi juventud (1773; "Diversions of My Youth").
He is considered a forerunner of Spanish Romanticism because of his Noches lúgubres (1789-90; "Sombre Nights"). The autobiographical prose work, inspired by the death of his love, the actress Mariá Ignacia Ibáñez, embodied a subjective attitude and disillusionment that attracted the interest and the sympathy of Spanish Romantics.
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