José de Vargas Ponce

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Vargas and the second or maternal family name is Ponce.

The Most Excellent José de Vargas
File:José de Vargas Ponce por Goya.jpg Portrait by Goya, 1805
Born	José de Vargas Ponce (1760-06-10)10 June 1760 Cádiz, Spain
Died	6 February 1821(1821-02-06) (aged 60) Madrid, Spain
Seat K of the Real Academia Española
In office March 1814 – 6 February 1821
Preceded by	Antonio de Porlier
Succeeded by	Juan Bautista Arriaza

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.