Facts: - caption: portrait of manuel jose quintana in his youth . - death date: 11 march 1857 - genre: poetry - birth date: 11 april 1722 - name: manuel jose quintana - nationality: spanish - image: mj quintana.jpg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of manuel jose quintana .
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manuel jose quintana y lorenzo -lrb- april 11 , 1772 - march 11 , 1857 -rrb- , was a spanish poet and man of letters .