Angel De Saavedra Rivas,duke of, a Spanish poet, born in Cordova, March 1, 1791. After advocating constitutional government in the cortes, he was exiled from 1823 to 1834. In 1836 he became minister of the interior in the government of Isturiz, which was soon driven from power by the revolutionary movement of La Granja. He was again banished by Espartero in 1837, but returned with Queen Maria Christina in 1843, and was ambassador to Naples till 1848. In 1854 he belonged to the short-lived cabinet which was overthrown by O'Donnell. Next he was ambassador in Paris, and in 1864 he presided for some time over the council of state. His principal works include, besides tragedies and comedies, Ensa-yos poéticos (2 vols., Madrid, 1813); Florinda, an epic poem on the Moorish conquest (1824-'5); Romances históricos (2 vols., Paris, 1840-'41); El Moro espósito, an epic poem (2 vols., 1844); and Historia de la sublevacion de Ná-poles (2 vols., Madrid, 1848; French translation by D'Hervey de Saint-Denys, Paris, 1849).