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Leandro Fernández de Moratín (
March 10 1760,
Madrid—
June 21,
1828,
Paris) was a
Spanish dramatist, translator and
neoclassical poet.
He was the son of
Nicolás Fernández de Moratín (1737-1780), who was a major literary reformer in Spain from 1762 until his death in 1780. Distrusting the teaching offered in Spain's universities at the time, Leandro grew up in the rich literary environment of his father and became an admirer of Enlightenment thought. In addition to translating works of
Molière and
William Shakespeare into Spanish, he himself was a major poet, dramatist and man of letters whose writing support the reformist ideas associated with the Spanish Enlightenment. Early in his career, his writings were supported by statesman and author
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, who, in 1787, arranged for him to study for a year in Paris. In 1792, the Spanish government provided the funds for him to travel to England in order to extend his education. In 1790 he published his first comedy 'El viejo y la niña' (The Old Man and the Young Girl), a sombre work which attacked the consequences of arranged marriages between people of differing ages. Two years later, in 1792, he wrote the play
La comedia nueva (The New Comedy), a dramatic attack on the extravagant plots used by of other contemporary playwrights.
A
supporter of
Joseph Bonaparte, whose rule had allowed far more expression of liberal thinking than what Spain's Bourbon monarch Carlos IV was willing to tolerate, Leandro Fernández de Moratín was given the post of royal librarian. His 1805 comedy
El sí de las niñas (
The Maidens' Consent,
1806) was denounced upon the reinstatement of the
Inquisition after
King Ferdinand VII regained the throne. Leandro Fernández de Moratín had to abandon playwriting and was forced into exile in France after the fall of the Bonapartes.
Leandro Fernández de Moratín died in France and was buried there in the
Père Lachaise Cemetery. However, at the turn of the 20th century, his remains were brought back to Spain for interment in Madrid's
Panteón de Hombres Ilustres (
Pantheon of Illustrious Men).
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