José de Vargas Ponce
# José de Vargas Ponce

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.

## 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.
