Biography[edit]
Don Gabriel Patricio Álvarez de Toledo, was the son of Francisco Álvarez de Toledo, a native of Bragança, Portugal, who belonged to the Order of Calatrava, and Luisa María Pellicer de Tobar, a native of Madrid.[1] He was a native of Seville, a descendant of the House of Alba, one of the most illustrious families of the Spanish, and Portugues nobility.[1] He was a founder Member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1713, Secretary of the King of Spain and a Knight of the Military Order of Alcantara. Of Portuguese descent, he was a true humanist, interested in philosophy and philology.[2]
Poetic work[edit]
Some of Don Gabriel's poetic works were printed in 1744 by Diego de Torres Villarroel, Professor of Mathematics and astronomer at the Salamanca University, in Diego de Torres Villarroel, under the title La Burromaquia, (something like "Treatise on the things related to Donkeys"), accompanied by some 17th-century mystical style religious poems.