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. Relation of the last voyage to the Strait of Magellan, 1788 (and Appendix to the Relation, 1793). 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.