Abstract
Even though it is considered a satirical novel, El siglo ilustrado. Vida de don Guindo Cerezo is in fact a virulent invective against the private life of Pablo de Olavide (1725-1803), who was an intendant of the New Populations of Andalucia and reformer of the Universidad de Sevilla. Don Guindo Cerezo (Pablo de Olavide) is attacked and ridiculed for his bookish and illustrated formation in the 18 chapters that make up the novel, which circulated in the form of anonymous manuscript during the 18th Century. With a heretic reputation for reading authors such as Pope, Voltaire, Arnaldo and other "impious" writers, Don Guindo Cerezo is slandered and disqualified by his enemies, employing the "moralizing satire" as instrument.