Manuel José de Lara Ródenas in Doctor of History, professor of Modern History at the University of Huelva and corresponding academic of the Royal Sevillian Academy of Good Letters, author of the most in-depth research on José Isidoro Morales, synthesized in his book “José Isidoro Morales. From Andalusia to Paris: the life of the father of freedom of the press”, published in 2016.

He has published more than ten books dedicated mainly to the Baroque and the Enlightenment, in addition to the biographies "Un heterodoxo en la Huelva de la Enlightenment: Miguel Ignacio Pérez Quintero", "José Isidoro Morales, a mathematician in the Court of Carlos IV", " The Works and Days of Lorenzo Cruz de Fuentes” and numerous poetic publications for which he has been awarded in several poetic competitions.

Thanks to his research work, the figure of José Isidoro Morales is being rescued from oblivion and currently, the University of Huelva has named its Maxiaulario after him, as well as that of a street in the vicinity of its campus.