Francisco Martinez de la Rosa-Romanticism

He was born at Granada, and educated at the university there.
He won popularity with a series of epigrams on local celebrities published under the title of El Cementerio de momo. During the struggle against Napoleon he took the patriotic side, was elected deputy, and at Cadiz produced his first play, Lo que puede un empleo, a prose comedy in the manner of the younger Leandro Fernández de Moratín. La Viuda de Padilia 1814, a tragedy modelled upon Alfieri, was less acceptable to the Spanish public.
Meanwhile the author became more and more engulfed in politics, and in 1814 was banished to Africa, where he remained until 1820, when he was suddenly recalled and appointed prime minister.

by: Alejandra Bautista