CADALSO VAZQUEZ, JOSE Spanish author, born at Cadiz, entered the army and rose to the rank of colonel. He was killed at the siege of Gibraltar. Cadalso was educated in Paris, travelled widely in his youth, and spread the knowledge of French and English literature in Spain. His first published work was a rhymed tragedy, Don Sancho Garcia, Conde de Castilla (1771), constructed on French classical lines. His Eruditos d la V ioleta (1772) is a prose satire on superficial knowl edge. In 1773 appeared a volume of miscellaneous poems, Ocios de mi juventud, and after his death there was found among his mss. a series of fictitious letters in the style of the Lettres Per sanes, which were issued in 1793 under the title of Cartas mar ruecas. His collected works appeared at Madrid in 1821, and have been supplemented by the Obras ineditas (Paris, 1894) published by R. Foulche-Delbosc.