José de Vargas Ponce explained

Honorific-Prefix:	The Most Excellent
José de Vargas
Birth Name:	José de Vargas Ponce
Birth Date:	10 June 1760
Birth Place:	Cádiz, Spain
Death Place:	Madrid, Spain
Module:	Embed: yes Office: Seat K of the Real Academia Española Term Start: March 1814 Term End: 6 February 1821 Predecessor: Antonio de Porlier Successor: Juan Bautista Arriaza

José de Vargas Ponce (Cádiz, 10 June 1760 – 6 February 1821) was a Spanish erudite, satirical poet and writer.

He was elected to seat K of the Real Academia Española, he took up his seat in March 1814.^[1]

Works

• Praise of Alfonso the Wise, 1782.
• Descriptions of the Islands and Balearic Pithiusas, 1787.
• Declamation on abuses introduced into the Castilian, presented and awarded at the Spanish Academy, 1791.
• Proclamation of a bachelor, 1827, burlesque poem in octaves.
• Dissertation on bullfighting, written in 1807 and published in London, by the Royal Academy of History in 1961.
• Description of Cartagena, Murcia, 1978
• Lucio Marineo Siculus Life
• Abdalaziz and Egilona, neoclassical tragedy.

Notes and References

1. Web site: José de Vargas - letra K. Real Academia Española. 27 May 2023. es.