Juan Bautista, a modern Spanish poet of considerable reputation, was born in 1770, at Madrid. He published his Primicias, an anonymous volume, in 1797. He was secretary to the Spanish embassy at London, where he wrote his Emilia. He then went to Paris; returned home in 1807; and became a violent partisan of the service party, attacking the Cortes and the patriots in prose and verse in his Discursos Políticos, and Poesías Patrióticas. His style is better than his subject, and his verses display harmony and expression. He died in 1837 at Madrid.