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Fernandez de Moratin, Leandro. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
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URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/fe/FernanM.html
shown in filters: References and Indices 1760–1828, Spanish dramatist and poet. A supporter of Joseph Bonaparte, he lived in exile in France after Bonaparte fell. Molière, whose works he translated, was his literary model. His plays, satiric and psychologically acute, include El sí de las niñas [the maidens’ consent] (1806), for which he was denounced to the Inquisition. He was subsequently compelled to give up playwriting.
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Leandro Fernandez de Moratin
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URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10560a.htm
Spanish poet and playwright, b. at Madrid, 10 March, 1760; at Paris, 21 June, 1828. He is usually known as the younger Moratín, and was the son of Nicolás Fernández de Moratín (1737-80), a lawyer and professor of poetry at the Imperial College, also a playwright. [ eng ] |

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