The only thing I personally thrilled that the supposed remains of Cervantes have appeared in the Convent of the Trinity in Madrid, is that people keep talking about the author of Quijote as if he had died just make a years. That, in the context of the celebration of the 400 years it was published the second part of his great work, I think even more significant, especially in times where writers and works volatility is increasing.
But of course I am of the idea of leaving the dead in peace. The bones of an author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra can not tell us more than his splendid literary heritage. And all the assembly of this search, mixture of forensic experts and other super-specialized analysts, is rather tiresome, but apparently useful. It is as if the Madrid authorities had decided that this year, by any means, have to find the remains of Manco de Lepanto being needful for the promotion of all that cultural tourists visiting graves and cemeteries somehow found various celebrities.
Among those who know of Cervantes and his work, I like and I share the opinion of Professor Francisco Rico, renowned philologist and (just in case) member of the Royal Academy Spanish, who has even come by these days ningunear the alleged discovery that has occupied all the cultural pages of the world: “Is there no such finding. We know as well as we did before. Possibly there has been a movement of sarcophagi and have excluded a number of remains, so you can not rule it is Cervantes, although not say. “
And as the search has been since then a cost, Academic wondered if it were not better to use just over 100,000 euros invested so far in buying quijotes for schools, “it is clear that I do not I would have spent on this,” he told the Spanish newspaper ABC .
Rico is aware that the goal is to make this all a tourist attraction, but considering that everything minusvalúa the neighborhood of the letters in Madrid it is, at least for insiders. Although certainly pursue Madrid authorities and with little time- though that this will become a world-renowned tourist resort facing the 2016, when they celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of Cervantes.
Now , which has been found are very dispersed remains in poor condition and, moreover, confused with other 15 people in the crypt of the Madrid church of the Discalced Trinitarians, place where the writer decided to be buried in gratitude for his release hostage in Algiers. There would also be the remains of his wife, Catalina de Salazar
The final report gave around the world. “In view of all the information generated in the case of historical, archaeological and anthropological, is possible to consider that among the fragments localized reduction in the floor of the crypt of the present church of the Trinity are some belonging to Miguel de Cervantes. (…) There are many coincidences and no discrepancies, “said blunt the forensic anthropologist Francisco Etxeberria, project manager
So far, everything went perfectly. We have, for better or worse, the remains the author of The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha . But soon after, the same expert addressed sow what is called, rightly, serious doubts: it would take a DNA test to determine huesito around here and over there belong to the distinguished writer, and which are not; a rather complex endeavor because the remains are “very fragmented”.
In theory, the remains of the novelist would offer many distinctive features, as are those of a man who received (during the naval battle Lepanto in 1571) musket shot twice in the chest and one in the left hand, since only tip was useful to be called El Manco de Lepanto . It is not, it would seem, to find a warrior, but in bone mess found in the Convent of the Discalced Trinitarians is not easy to identify them.
The bones of Cervantes remain, then, like his Quijote after many adventures, crushed and broken, with the aggravation of the dispersion produced various removals in the Convent of the Trinity. But who cares: with or without bones in sight remember this year the second part of Don Quixote and, next, the 400th of his death
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