Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo

Francisco de Paula Martinez de la Rosa Berdejo Gómez y Arroyo ( born March 10, 1787 Granada, † February 7, 1862 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet, playwright, politician, diplomat and President of the Government of Spain (Presidente de Gobierno ).

Life

Francisco Martínez de la Rosa came from a wealthy family and took classes at the School of Garcipérez José de Vargas; there he proved to be so talented that he has already been approved with 12 years to study at the university of his native city, where he completed his studies in 1804 of civil law with a doctorate. Since early childhood he also wrote poetry.

At only 18, he was appointed in his hometown of Granada University Professor of Moral Philosophy. He was a member of the Cortes of Cadiz which adopted the liberal Constitution of Cadiz in 1812. After the return of King Ferdinand VII and the re- launch of its absolutist Francisco Martínez de la Rosa was sentenced to eight years in prison in exile on La Gomera. 1820, in the so -called " Liberal Trienio ," he was able to return to Madrid and became Foreign Minister in 1822. In 1823 he had to flee again, this time to France, and lived again seven years in exile ( he belonged to the moderate liberals ). After the death of Ferdinand VII and the enactment of the amnesty was Martínez de la Rosa 1834-35 President of the Government of Spain (Presidente de Gobierno ), practiced in between also the post of war minister and in 1839 chairman of the Real Academia Española.

On June 30, 1834, he was elected Members of Parliament, where he alternately constituencies of Granada, Oviedo, Segovia, Cádiz, Cuenca and Madrid took until his death, and at times was also President of the Parliament.

After Baldomero Espartero became president in 1840 and 1841 Regent government, Martínez de la Rosa spent the years 1840-1843 again in Paris, in the government Narváez, he served as foreign minister from 1844 to 1846. He was also complicit in the drafting of the liberal constitution of 1845 1848 / 49 he was ambassador in Paris and Rome, 1857 -. 1858 again foreign minister. Of his critics he was because of his very moderate political attitude derisively " Rosita la pastelera " ( Rosita the pastry chef ) called.

Francisco Martínez de la Rosa died in 1862 in Madrid.

Work

Martínez de la Rosa was moderate in literary matters; he used what he himself "el justo medio " called ( the golden mean ). He is an author of the transition from the Late Classicism to Romanticism (Spanish: " prerromántico " ) and going on eclectic, by which selects from everything suits him. Also what dealing with the three units affects it tends to synthesis. Martínez de la Rosa himself was aware of his pioneering role and the fact that he entered uncharted territory with its largely historical pieces.

Drama

• La viuda de Padilla (1812 in besieged Cadiz premiered )
• Lo que puede un empleo (1812 Cádiz) satirical comedy
• Morayama (1815 )
• La niña en casa y la madre en la máscara (1815 written in 1821 world premiere)
• Los celos infundados o el marido en la chimenea (1824 written in 1833 world premiere)
• Edipo (1828 written in 1832 world premiere)
• Aben Humeya ( French premiere in 1830, Spanish 1836)
• La Venecia de conjuración. Año de 1310 (published in 1830, 1834 world premiere): historical drama in five acts in prose
• La boda y el duelo 1839

Historical novel

• Hernán Pérez del Pulgar, el de las Hazanas. Madrid, 1834.
• Isabel de Solís. (1837 )

Poetry

• POESIAS. Madrid, 1833

Essay

• Espíritu del siglo. (1835, 1836, 1838)
• Bosquejo histórico de la política de España en tiempos de la Dinastía austriaca. Madrid 1856
• La Moralidad como norma de las acciones humanas. Madrid, 1856