Juan Nicasio Gallego

Juan Nicasio Gallego ( born December 14, 1777 Zamora, † January 9, 1853 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet.

Life and work

Gallego studied in Salamanca and was ordained a priest in 1800. In 1805 he was in Madrid chaplain and spiritual director of the Institute Page. His work on the defense of Buenos Aires against the attacks of the English was in 1807 recognition, as well as his " Elegia al Dos de Mayo " in 1808, the On 2 May 1808 is about the popular uprising in Madrid against the French. In another French attack in December of 1808, he fled with the government of Madrid.

After his return he was three years initially deputy in the Cortes of Cadiz, the Parliament created during the Napoleonic occupation of Spain, but was banished to the restoration in a Carthusian monastery in Andalucia, where he wrote more poems. After the revolution of 1820 he was a canon in the metropolitan church of Seville and later a member of the General Directorate of study and royal Council in Madrid, as well as resistant secretary of the Royal Academy. In 1853 he died in Madrid.

Works

His poems, consisting of elegies, odes, epistles, sonnets, etc., are usually characterized classic and 1856 were published by the Spanish Academy. They were printed, among others, in Ribadeneyras " Biblioteca de autores españoles " in Volume 67.