IRIARTE (or YRIARTE), TOMAS DE (1750-1791), Span ish poet, was born in the island of Teneriffe. His Fdbulas literarias (1781), composed in a great variety of metres, show considerable ingenuity in their humorous attacks on literary men and methods; but their merits have been greatly exaggerated. During his later years, partly in consequence of the Fdbulas, Iriarte was absorbed in personal controversies with Forner and others.
See E. Cotarelo y Mori, Iriarte y su epoca (1897).