Yriarte

Yriarte, CHARLES, a French author of Spanish ancestry, was born in Paris on 5th December 1832. He studied architecture, but from 1861 devoted himself to literature; his works, over twenty in number, dealing with Spain, Paris, the Franco-German war, Venice (Eng. trans. 1879), Florence (Eng. trans. 1882), Cæsar Borgia (1889), Isabella d'Este (1892), &c.; and he contributed the article BORGIA to this Encyclopædia. From 1894 he was inspector-general of fine art in France. He died 7th April 1898.