Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
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Gaspar Melchor "Jovino" de Jovellanos was a Spanish neoclassical statesman, author, philosopher and a major figure of the Age of Enlightenment in Spain. He was born at Gijón in Asturias, Spain. Select
Jovellanos painted by Goya, 1798
Jovellanos Street in Madrid
Spanish Enlightenment
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The Spanish Enlightenment was an 18th-century intellectual and cultural movement that was part of the broader Western Enlightenment.
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
…Age of Enlightenment Enlightenment in Spain Fernández-Medina, Nicolás. "Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos y el vitalismo en la España ilustrada: Una visión poética y reformista de la naturaleza…
Inquisition Scene by Francisco Goya. The Spanish Inquisition was still in force in the late eighteenth century. but much reduced in power.
The Prado Museum, Madrid