Detail document attesting to Miguel de Cervantes as collector of Hacienda Real in La Puebla de Cazalla.
The work, almost detective, an archivist of La Puebla de Cazalla, Township Seville countryside, has shed light on unknown aspects of the biography of Miguel de Cervantes. The finding four unpublished documents in various archives sheds new light on his work as a collector of the Royal Treasury and points to the possibility that there was another woman in his life.
The archivist concerned, José Cabello, is he met by chance three years ago with a manuscript of March 5, 1593 in which Cervantes was credited to the City Council as commissioner of the Royal Navy supplies custom provider Indies fleet Cristobal de Barros. The work of the novelist was to raise wheat and barley to supply the fleet of Philip II. “The document is important because it proves that Cervantes was in La Puebla, which was previously unknown, and relates first with Christopher de Barros, who was the owner who built the ships that participated in the Battle of Lepanto [in Cervantes also fought] in addition to being a supplier to the galleons of the Armada fleet and route to the Indies, “said yesterday the researcher who discovered the first manuscript among the thousands of documents between La Puebla 1543-1894 deposited in the District Notarial Archive of Moron de la Frontera.
“These bundles are preserved thanks to the nineteenth century an order forcing the City of La Puebla to deposit all notary documents Morón [as head party]. La Puebla files were burned during the Civil War. In 2002, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the issuance of the letter to La Puebla de Cazalla by Count of Ureña, these documents and I’ve been reading and classifying recent years were microfilmed, “said Hair, who from this paper started pulling a thread that has taken him to locate three files relating to the father of the modern novel, who spent 10 years in the province of Seville, in 1587-1597.
The ratio of novelist Cristobal de Barros led to Hair to the Archivo General de Indias, where he found deliverance from Barros November 1593 in ordering the payment of a salary of 19,200 maravedis, “a fairly decent sum for the time,” said researcher, for 48 days of service as “curator” of the Royal Treasury in several municipalities in the province of Seville. “Also in the Archives of the Indies I located another document which clarifies that Cervantes made this service between 21 February and 28 April 1593 But, in my opinion, the most interesting finding is the Archive of Notarial Protocols Sevilla: a power that gives Magdalena Cervantes Enriquez to collect their salary. This woman never appeared related to the writer. The document is the only one of four that is signed by him, “says the archivist, who has written two articles pending publication, which compiles the work of these years
Miguel de Cervantes, seen by Loredano.
For the philologist and scholar Francisco Rico, one of the leading experts on the works of Cervantes, the finding “is interesting, but still do not know anything about the character, about your privacy, your thinking or how it related with the women of his family. ” “The emergence of Magdalena Enriquez may be an interesting track, but I would not do me much hope because, as a biscuit mixture working for the treasure fleet, the relationship could have been purely commercial,” he said yesterday Professor of Hispanic Literatures Medieval. According to Rico, there are many similar testimonies of his work as a collector and his signature appears on many of them, “a considerable number to be an author of the Golden Age”, but no trace of documents that reveal his character. “His mood we have to deduct it from his works,” said Rico
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The novelist granted a power Magdalena Enriquez one biscuit mixture of Seville, to redeem your salary
“This opens the door to new research that could bring more light to the biography of the author of Don Quixote . So far only knew of the existence of three important women in his life: Ana Franca de Rojas, with whom he had a natural daughter named Isabel de Saavedra; Catalina de Salazar y Palacios, whom he married in 1584, and Jerónima Alarcón, one of whom Cervantes Seville listed as guarantor and payer of houses in 1589, “says Hair. “From Magdalena Enríquez just know it was born in Seville and biscuit mixture. There must be a widow, because otherwise they could not have done a power to his name, and have some kind of relationship with Cervantes when he allowed him collect his salary, since he had to leave for a new assignment and could not wait to collect “.
The finding contradicts the permanent poverty of Cervantes
The documentary finding Puebla Cazalla on the temporary stay of Miguel de Cervantes in Seville town, highlights the universal novelist was considerably well paid at that period of his life between 1592 and 1593 highlights the cervantista So José Montero Reguera, Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Vigo and specialist since 1992 in the life of the universal alcalaíno on which the thesis dealt with the professor, also author of six published studies thereon. “The documents found by Hair Nunez placed in space-time coordinates accurate and existential stage of the life of Miguel de Cervantes little known Puebla Cazalla centered and so far ignored.” Montero Reguera added: “They show also that during this stage, the author of The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha received a substantial compensation, which denies, in part, the romantic interpretation of the nineteenth century, he attributed to an ever Cervantes helpless existence. In contrast, “adds Montero Reguera,” survived to advanced age, 69 years, almost longeva for its time, in three of the richest cities in Spain “.
” Valladolid, Madrid and Seville From Cervantes Seville stay, which lasted 15 years from 1587, proxy data are known, “he adds. “Even a scholar, Jose M. Asensio, in the late nineteenth century came to say who spoke colloquial Andalusian, something highly unlikely.” What we do know with certainty documentary proven expert adds, “is that Cervantes was in Seville provider fleet sent by Philip II to invade England.” It is also known that “it was in the Andalusian capital where the Sonnet wrote to the death of Fernando de Herrera and other writing on the tumulus erected in the city of the Guadalquivir to the death of Philip II.”
“The most important thing is that this documentary possible findings open up new avenues of research that indicate new paths where to look and find unknown facts of his biography,” concludes catedrático.También now discovered what attests to a link Magdalena narrow Enriquez link to today ignored. It is known that this name comes from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula and had many ramifications: it was the same that led some major medieval admirals of Castile
Second phase to find the remains of Cervantes
In addition, the second phase of research to locate the remains of Miguel de Cervantes in Madrid convent of Trinitarian and enjoy the acquiescence of the nuns and the Archbishop of Madrid, said Francisco Etxeberria, forensic who heads the scientific team that will undertake the study of the skeletal remains, once located. While Madrid City Council is poised to provide funding for this phase, only missing the “green light” from the General Directorate of Heritage in the Madrid regional government, which has legal jurisdiction over matters of historical and cultural heritage aspect, since the examine regional body cartographic documentation collected in the first phase of exploration, undertaken with GPR and drew a full map of the monastery and its subsoil. The second stage of exploration will consist of on-site examination, in the crypt of the monastery, the remains buried in dozens of niches housed there, to compare them with the anatomical documentation is attributed to the spoils of universal novelist, buried in the convent in April 1616, which presented indelible marks of wounds on the sternum and metacarpal bones of the left hand, both wounds suffered by the universal alcalaíno at the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571.
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