Authors are not in agreement on the exact place of his birth within the Almendralejo region, although local tradition points to the palace-house of the Marquises of Monsalud. He was baptized on the same day of his birth (March 25, 1808) at the Parish of Our Lady of the Purification in Almendralejo.

 

His family settled in Madrid in 1820, on Lobo Street, where he attended a school on San Mateo Street. In 1823, he attended the Institute of Humanities on Valverde Street for three years. He wrote his first verses in the newspaper "El Mirto." At the age of 15, he joined the secret society called "Los Numantinos," for which he was arrested (at the Convent of San Francisco in Guadalajara). At 17, he was sent to Gibraltar and later to Lisbon. He was subsequently expelled to London and later moved to Paris. After the death of Fernando VII, he returned to Madrid to lead a group of "troublemakers" called the "Trueno party." He frequented the Parnasillo, where liberals and poets of 19th-century Madrid gathered. During this time, he had a romantic relationship with Teresa, with whom he had a daughter named Blanca.

 

In 1840, he published his first volume of poetry and underwent a radical change in his life. He was appointed secretary of the Spanish embassy in The Hague and was elected as a deputy in Almería in 1841. He had a new relationship with Carmen Osorio, which did not work out, and he fell in love with Bernarda de Beruete, but he fell ill with a throat condition and died in 1842.

 

Among his literary works, notable ones includes "El estudiante de Salamanca," "La Canción del Pirata," "El Pelayo," "El reo de Muerte," "El diablo mundo," "Canto a Teresa," and others.

 

The figure of Espronceda had the circumstances that turned him into a myth, as he managed to combine moral and political rebellion with highly elevated artistic creation, further accentuated by his untimely death.

In 1902, his remains were transferred to the Pantheon of Illustrious Men of Spain.