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| Chicharro Antonio Stock |
CITY OF SILENCE
These old stones,
Baeza care,
are rich treasure
distant age;
holy relic,
I am loving
my old Spain.
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noble Baeza, Baeza
the noble
your stones are
hymns that sing glory,
are
beautiful pages of forgotten history ;
glorious trophies
the time left.
LAINEZ ALCALÁ
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| Rafael Lainez Alcala in his mature years |
At thirteen, Rafael Lainez began publishing their stories as a correspondent in the newspaper Peal "Regeneration" and publish in the journal "Don Lope de Sosa" both directed by Alfredo hunted Laguna.
moved to Madrid to get a degree that was interrupted by war in Africa where they participate and from which sends chronicles of war. On his return ended a degree in Philosophy and in 1928 obtained his doctorate with a thesis entitled Contributions to the biography of Don Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas, Bishop of Jaén and archbishop of Toledo and protector of Cervantes to be published as Larragoiti winner.
In the same year he began his teaching career, first as assistant professor of art history at Complutense University and later at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando until after the Civil War that would enter the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid. In 1945 he obtained his first chair of art history at the University of La Laguna (Tenerife), but it was not until 1949 when he gets his final lecture at the University of Salamanca. From this date begins its period of greatest production literary and journalistic plus also promote the dissemination of artistic heritage with its intense Conference Presenter.
In 1969 he became the adopted son of Salamanca on the occasion of his retirement. Lainez always maintained close collaboration with Jaén, which earned him to be appointed honorary historian Úbeda and founding member of Institute of Giennenses. In Madrid, a collaborator of the Centre for Historical Studies, Council for Scientific Research and the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
In his abundant literary production highlights their work for newspapers: "Regeneration," "Homeland", "La Province", "Landscape", "Sphere", "Yearbook of the Advancement of Cazorla" "Don Lope de Sosa" or the magazine "English Archives of Art and Archaeology." As for his major works emphasizes his thesis, already mentioned, and Pedro Berruguete, painter of Castile biographical critical essay in 1934 awarded the National Prize for Literature.
Years evening of his death, the City of Peal de Becerro acquires its library and personal file for rescuing people and for the scientific community a legacy of great value. "
ON THE POEM
The poem above transcript, which Antonio Machado was cleared for publication first Regeneration, is taken from the book ORTEGA PEREZ MANUEL URBAN , Del Gaudalquivir the Tormes. Poetry anthology Alcalá Rafael Lainez, Jaén, Jaén Provincial Council, 1999, p. 31. Manuel Urbano writes of the following: "It is more than curious, instructive, how in the first Laínez poetic text of hexasyllabic ballads, sung to the historic city with obvious pictorialism, which axis is constant in his poetry, as I will be alone in singing the intimate to the stone in much of their work in the years of the republic and early postwar period. In another vein, do not know if this first text, rather some first-time, succeeded him other-which is nothing strange would-they saw the light in publications Giennenses and before the appearance, in 1920, his first book, The Pilgrimage Tíscar , printed in Madrid, and preceded by a foreword Marqués de Dosfuentes.
