Francisco Cascales

He never mentions his parents in his works, nor does he talk of his family or their circumstances like other writers of the period, which has led some to speculate that he may have been a natural child.

Here he obtained a post lecturing in rhetoric before teaching at the Seminario Mayor de San Fulgencio in Murcia.

He married three times, but only had children with his final wife, the sister of poets Pedro and Bartolomé Ferrer Muñoz.

He also wrote Latin epigrams inspired by Marcus Valerius Martialis, and translated Horace’s Ars Poetica into Spanish.

The Cartas filológicas tackles a wide variety of topics, adopting a very clear essayistic style, through which he discusses ideas on history and aesthetic.