Leandro Fernández de Moratín

Leandro Fernández de Moratín
Leandro Fernández de Moratín

Moratín painted by Goya
Born March 10, 1760(1760-03-10)
Madrid
Died June 21, 1828(1828-06-21) (aged 68)
Paris
Occupation Dramatist, translator, poet

Leandro Fernández de Moratín (March 10, 1760 – June 21, 1828) was a Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet.

Biography

Moratín was born in Madrid the son of Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, 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 [literally The yes of the girls] (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 Paris 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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