Juan Arolas, a Spanish poet, born in Barcelona, June 20, 1805, died in Valencia in November, 1849. He was a member of the order of the Piarists, and chaplain in the normal school of Valencia, and became insane five years before his death in consequence of religious exal-tation. His poetical works include Libro de amoves, poesias pastoriles, cartas amatorias (3 vols., Valencia, 1843); Poesias caballerescas y orientales (new edition, 1850); and translations of Chateaubriand's poems and Moise. A complete edition of his poems was .published in Valencia in 1860, in three volumes.