Cieza is immune to discouragement, especially when it comes to culture. Not even the blackout
General was able to stop the activities scheduled for the Book Fair. On Monday,
In April, historian Pascual Santos López presented his book “Radical thought in the
Murcia of the Enlightenment”, in the Cloister of the Padre Salmerón Library in Cieza.
As it was not possible, due to the circumstances known to all, for the professor
of Modern History at the University of Murcia, Francisco Javier Guillamón,
displaced, introduced the author to the historian Manuela Caballero González who spoke to us
of the work done by Pascual Santos to write the two books of the trilogy,
entitled “Radical Enlightenment in Spain”, highlighting that in this second book he deals with
unpublished characters in the dawn of liberalism.
The author explained that although our country has always been accused of not having
Enlightenment or that was minor or peripheral than that of other European countries, thanks to the
The rich archives of the Spanish Inquisition prove the opposite. Because of the
595 cases on heretical propositions, between the years 1780 and 1820, which were
preserved from the Spanish Monarchy throughout the world, 95 are from the Inquisition
Murcian, which demonstrates the importance of radical enlightened thought in the
ancient Kingdom of Murcia, thanks to the work of the San Fulgencio Seminary. To which
They called it the Seminary of the Enlightened in their time.
In addition, the public was able to chat with the author about the cases of Alejandro Malaspina and
other unpublished heroes, who fought for the Constitution and against the absolutism of the
Old Regime, in the incomparable setting of the Cloister of the Convent with a
beautiful overhead lighting.