As poet, and under the name of "Dalmiro", he composed the work "Leisures of my youth" (1771). His love towards the actress María Ignacia Ibáñez made him approach the dramatic world. Although he wrote three tragedies, only one of them was represented, and with little success, "Don Sancho García, count of Castile" (1771). His work in prose is however more extensive. In "Dismal nights" he narrates in dialogue form his frustrated yearning for rescuing the body of María Ignacia from the tomb. Entirely neoclassical is the book "The erudites to the violet", against the false intellectuals; seven lessons that satirize those who try to know much studying little.