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CIENFUEGOS, NICASIO See also:ALVAREZ DE (1764–1809) , See also:Spanish poet and publicist, was See also:born at See also:Madrid on the 14th of See also:December 1764. He studied with distinction at See also:Salamanca, where he met the poet Melendez See also:Valdes. His poems, published in 1778, immediately attracted See also:attention. He was successively editor of the Gaceta and Mercurio, and was condemned to See also:death for having published an See also:article against See also:Napoleon; on the See also:petition of his See also:friends, he was respited and deported to See also:France; he died at See also:Orthez See also:early in the following See also:year. His verses are modelled on those of Melendez Valdes; though not deficient in technique or See also:passion, they are often disfigured by See also:spurious sentimentality and by the flimsy See also:philosophy of the See also:age. Cienfuegos was blamed for an unsparing use of both archaisms and gallicisms. His plays, Pitaco, Zoraida, La Condesa de Castilla and Idomeneo, four tragedies on the pseudo-classic See also:French See also:model, and See also:Las Hermanas generosas, a See also:comedy, are deservedly forgotten.

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