CISNEROS TO THE TOMB OF EN ALCALA DE HENARES
A good walk this morning's river forward against the hills of Gebel Zulema and going boldly into the groves of the farms that have been limited almost the entire shore-Henares rejected. What if you think for these sites is not Cervantes? On December 18, 1580 he signed a document that declares a native of Alcalá. All his adventurous life passes by our imagination: his stay in Italy, its existence as a soldier, the tragedy of Algiers, the heartbreak of Madrid, Lisbon, Esquivias, his station abas-ing, his forlorn bustle of poor merchant, his job as executive officer of the Royal Treasury, his imprisonment in Castro's jails and Seville River, his wanderings po-Sadas those in which there was no light "which was a lamp, for hanging in through the portal burning within, and whose evil smooth beds of four tables had the pack-saddles and blankets and sheets of males made leather shield and shearing ange blankets, and mattress, one filled with lumps ...
On rounds we arrived at O'Donnell Park and Cho-Carrillo. Cameron admitted the Germans sunbathing or watching striding the beautiful melancholy cypresses of the cemetery. We do not know why these cypress us reminded of the University and the pale, serious sem-tenance of Cisneros. The soul, a little worried, abandoned, however, the memory of the stout figure was there in adolescence spent in the seminar, the subject of many meditation. And slowly, San Bernardo, and San Felipe, dis-Brim Saints Square Boys and entered the canon, the beautiful church so many years in restoration.
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Cisneros in the burial of the workers have coloratIn haquetas and caps. The whole vast church is occupied by huge scaffolding, and it's cold. Sitting in the stands the altar, behold the works of Bartolomé Ordóñez and I think that rests in humble casket factory under that proud stone. Within a few days will come, with the apparatus used in these cases, celebrants of the centenary and there will be speeches, many speeches, famous speeches Hispanic, vacuous of deep exegesis, full of cliches, mathematical copy of what has been writing about Cisneros for centuries, not by chance that one has come to none other than documented in books that all fathers were documented. Ah! The one that undoubtedly will speak of Prescott and ease of facts the Archetype of virtues and prelates mirror, but not to take this opportunity to discuss the policy of our days and miss them a Cisneros ... the Cisneros the auto de fe de Bib-Rambla.
centenarians among us are like that blind homage, worship at full speed, aggression and vitriol against quo judgments not like us. The De rebus Gestis Gomez de Castro and exhumation of the speech 12 of volume IV of our essential critical Theatre Feijoo: here's what flash in the near days of the anniversary. Lafuente all grass, it does not fail, and not miss a description of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, with allusions to Isabel will read in the Annals and several speeches, Galindez de Carvajal and Dormer. But the real Cisneros when you know ...? When we possess about the sullen and Archbishop of Toledo genialísimo a book Iberian respond to the scientific concept of certainty, to free us from the detailed historical research, the individualistic orientation of the philosophical influences that build statically the facts? Is it possible that a English one day offering the book without ideological systematization, a further about Lamprecht, Kurt Breysig on it, based on ethnic and geographical give Lager with such admirable success to his History of German literature? We may not be satisfied now rummaging through Marineo Lucio Siculus and Peter Martyr, as indicated by lack of care is recommended the people of the two volumes. Mersollier Cisneros and even books and great Hefele Brandie, with not having them over.
Here, in front of the remains of the great Cardinal, hate more than ever the clouds of rhetoric and fanfare we are used to idealize the English or discuss our historical figures. What greater tribute to the Franciscan immortal as to know as it was? And what greater scorn for a country to shed, after so many years on the tomb of the founder of many schools, fanaticism flowers, instead of clear ideas of understanding? Oddly enough, no sa-Bemos yet how was Cisneros, ie know little about what children learn in their first letters. Fléchier, Balbin Unquera, Brieva, few have written of him, we are not satisfied. Dr. Richter, in his book on Spinoza's philosophical terminology has shown us how diffi-cult to ascertain the significance is just that philosophers should be shovel the concepts used, and while we are in need of fix . Well if it is necessary that philosophers formidable study, what does not happen in the case of the geniuses of the action? As usual, simplistic to the core, afraid of criticism we change our idol, and preferring prefer apologetics free jet, although our ideas to build up in monstrous homeomerías. That is very much ours, when our hero is not accepted in all its deification, it seems to detract him, and before you get it, overwhelmed by the icon, the kustari, praise and humility with Russian heroism. One of the best modern students told the present writer, with caustic phrase: Our countrymen are in that of scientific approach to absolute zero, the temperature of liquid helium or electric furnace. "The sad thing is not to be true , the sad thing is that they bother when they are told. However great a chance, says modern science, is never a certainty. It is never enough in the investigation. Before the tomb of Cardinal misses her figure, no doubt huge, but untapped, so little certain in its entirety as the recumbent effigy that was placed in the grave four years after his death. How was this monk Obducta facie, as the Epistles of Peter Martyr, armigera, and even uneasy, in the opinion of Hurtado de Mendoza? We can imagine him at the whim of our fantasy Iberian, ignorance and mental laziness of this country have given us permission, permission sad, now here in front of the mound, to no avail. That is, it does serve, for shame, Just lying, just being an idolater furious or a stubborn opponent could imagine the interesting silhouette of one of the strongest men who created the English plateau. We have no other resource, go to foreigners and read French novel by Jean Bertheroy.
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And yet, there are few figures in the lives of the people as interesting as the de Cisneros, as worthy of having a concrete intelligence. His time was the most important period of our history, his genius, a marvelous synthesis of features our very our own. Among Don Alonso de Carrillo and the great Cardinal Mendoza, Cisneros's it, nothing more than him. It seems impossible a soul may have a more defined and interesting Iberian these two prelates, Cisneros is beyond both. It is not wise, and it seems, is no saint, and deserves to be. It was a wise and holy in his way. It was printing books, which then distributed in the convents of nuns, "that were not vacant and burned thousands of books in Granada of the Moors. Cisneros is a statesman made in the wilderness of Salceda and procedures are those of a former abbot of Lauras, in which there were thousands of monks. Indeed to understand the Cardinal-Regent is necessary to read the collection of the Rules of the monks of the East and West, of San Benito de Anianom, or Veingarthem book. The it is concerned, good or bad, true or false, is enormous interest to make us be a formidable Iberian soul. His way of making fuqaha, xeques and other Moorish in Moorish Iberian is deep, say what you want in your Quincuagenas Gonzalo de Oviedo. Monumental editions of the Complutense Bible, the works of Aristotle and Tan, who were entrusted to others, have given extraordinary fame. It would be nice to be imitated in our time. Prelate the richest of Christianity, used his diocesan income of 80,000 ducats to open choir. His whole life seems to be a display of energy, in which even the spiritual are transformed into action, whatever what. The beautiful legend of Sacramento Street, which has made him so sympathetic to the people, must cover admirable episodes. What more wonderful than a Franciscan friar leading the strongest nation in the world? ... The most powerful and most difficult to handle, yesterday and today ... Eugenio Noel
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