José Iglesias de la Casa

De la Casa pursued his studies at the University of Salamanca and in 1784 took holy orders in Madrid, Spain.

Certain portions of his work provided offense to the Church authorities and were put on the index of forbidden books by the Inquisition.

They are most readily accessible in the "Biblioteca de Autores Españoles", vol.

LXI, which contains about 38 letrillas, satires, epigrams, odes, anacreontics, and eclogues.

A collection of his unedited poems were published by R. Foulche-Delbosc, in the 1895 "Revue Hispanique", vol.