Luis de Góngora, the Inquisitor – EkoPlaneta

Sevilla, Aug 19 (EFE) The Amelia .- Peace researcher, who two years ago found an autograph Gongora in the National Historical Archives has published the process in 1597 in which Luis de Góngora declared against Inquisitor Córdoba charges of concubinage, a case that sheds light on the figure of the poet

“The image is now completely distorted Góngora,. need recompose with truthful information, his biography is a sum of jokes and conjecture; the last to be dealt with first hand offload Dámaso Alonso was half a century ago, and can not live off forever, “said Amelia Peace Efe.

The figure of the poet is so distorted that “the enmity between Góngora and Quevedo is one of the most persistent canards of Spanish literature,” according to the researcher who has written several works “dismantling the myth and misrepresentations on which it is based.”

Paz says, “Quevedo is a completely irrelevant character in the life of Góngora; Góngora instead meant a lot to Quevedo, who was twenty years younger than him and counted him an unattainable model in the poetic, as happened to most of the poets of that time at the wonder of ‘Solitudes.’ “

“All hearsay” is the title that the research has been to extract 250 pages that has made the entire process, kept in a thousand folios, which has been just added a brief prologue and a shorter epilogue yet to form a book that Professor Francisco Rico has said it is “required reading in universities and brothels.”

De Paz, now continues his research on the life of the poet in files Córdoba, chose that title because these pages contain the verbatim transcript of the process, based on the oral testimony of witnesses, and that, he says, “is one of the charms of the book, hear, almost out loud, the language of late sixteenth. “

Also because the whole process is based on a rumor and” most of the witnesses ‘had heard’ this or that “, so that the inquisitor judge handling the process is putting notes to the statements he spends his secretary and, at some point, apart from one, scores of his own hand. “It’s all hearsay”

The case against Alonso Jiménez Reinoso, who besides cleric inquisitor of Córdoba was accused of concubinage, was long and gathered nearly 120 witness statements of Córdoba, Ecija, Seville and Granada, both for and against the accused.

Góngora testified against-the autograph gongorino De Paz said in 2012 it was a manuscript memorial against the poet Reinoso delivered the day they called him declarar- but, according to the researcher, “is not there the thing: it seems that he, along with a sheriff of the Inquisition called Luis de Acebedo, was the promoter of the investigation against Reinoso. “

The poet and the inquisitor had been” good friends “, but blamed Góngora Reinoso dismissal his real father as judge of the Inquisition in Córdoba, a position that, like so many, was hereditary at the time and that the poet could have legitimately aspired.

According to De Paz, “Góngora thought Reinoso, with its shady dealings, had been inducing the relegation of his father, and decided to strike back; Reinoso knew well; They were partners in the council of the Cathedral; “.

” knew their weaknesses Góngora joined with others who had cases against Reinoso, who was a man of character, and together they rose up against him the dust of concubinage; it was not difficult to spread the rumor that dominated the circuits in Cordoba and Reinoso was a stranger; Góngora and was himself, touching keys on Madrid, who got him to investigate the Inquisition Reinoso; ultimately was revenge, “says De Paz.

The aggrieved Cordoba managed to take their city Reinoso, who received what the slang called today” kicked up “, as he finished Inquisitor in Valladolid, then place more importance Córdoba.