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FORNER, JUAN BAUTISTA PABLO (1756-1799)

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FORNER, JUAN BAUTISTA PABLO (1756-1799) , See also:Spanish satirist and See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Merida (See also:Badajoz) on the 23rd of See also:February 1756, studied at the university of See also:Salamanca, and was called to the See also:bar at See also:Madrid in 1783. During the next few years—under the pseudonyms of Tome Cecial," Pablo Segarra,'' " See also:Don See also:Antonio Varas," " Bartolo," " Pablo Ignocausto," " El Bachiller Reganadientes," and " Silvio Liberio "—Forner was engaged in a See also:series of polemics with See also:Garcia de la Huerta, See also:Iriarte and other writers; the violence of his attacks was so extreme that he was finally forbidden to publish any controversial See also:pamphlets, and was transferred to a legal See also:post at See also:Seville. In 1796 he became See also:crown prosecutor at Madrid, where he died on the 17th of See also:March 1799. Forner's brutality is almost unexampled, and his satirical writings give a false impression of his See also:powers. His OraciOn apologetica See also:par la Espana y su Write literario (1787) is an excellent example of learned advocacy, far See also:superior to similar efforts made by See also:Denina and Antonio See also:Cavanilles; and his See also:posthumous Exequias de la lengua castellana (printed in the Biblioteca de autores espanoles, vol. lxiii.) testifies to his scholarship and See also:taste.

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