“I thought that what I did outside of Alicante, in America, in Europe, had nothing to do with my first and last name. I am the representative of my country and above all Alicante». he said Raphael Altamira (Alicante, 1866-Mexico, 1951) His speech in 1934 When handed over to Alicante Town Hall City’s Gold Medal. a title that fed an alicantinidad historian and lawyer Creator of University ExtensionHe defended himself despite being far from his lands where his educational and professional obligations had driven him first and then into exile.
This, 18 texts he is Ignacio Ramos Altamira great-grandson of thinker and educator, Articles about Alicante and its festivalsEdited by UA and City Council, published pages joint articles for the first time than about the city’s traditions lawyer at The Hague Court of Justice Y multiple Nobel nominees He wrote in the newspapers and magazines of that time.
All about Alicante, speeches When awarded a Gold Medal, when you come back from america and during his speech glorification of beauty And it is completed with Forewords of storybooks set in Alicante Levant Tales (1895), the text that opens the book and fantasies and memories (1910).
Another featured article is Popular art: dances, It was published in the journal Apuntes in 1896, because in text illustrations by Vicente Banuls. The last one, written by Altamira, dates from 1934. fogueres museum, published in the magazine Partythis festival demanded a museum center for the city.
Altamira had a special relationship with the Hogueras, especially In the thirties of the last century, because this was a subject that he wrote about many times and 7 articles about it were collected in this book. so much the name Foguerer Mayor of the San Fernando bonfire in 1934. “It’s not what actually happened to the fogueres, but for the community of Alicante, because of – let’s put it that way – neutrality regarding what divides people, there should be a space for joint action and cooperation for its best success”, Differential and Partner wrote in their published article In the Hoy newspaper of Alicante on 29 June 1934.
Your friend Gabriel Miro
The book closes with the article published by, as an afterword. In 1910 in the Madrid magazine Prometeo Alicante writer Gabriel Miró was a very good friend of the lawyer when he returned from America. “Altamira is fully in possession of the sacred truth of knowledge and love,” wrote Miró of the historian, “a man of generous wisdom, patriarchal kindness and sweetness».
In addition to the text search, Ignacio Ramos also promoted this book. “They’re the only ones I could find, and they were never published together,” he says. In them, he emphasizes “the more personal and simple style of his books, far from the usual academic tone”.
Altamira came to Alicante more often in the 1930s because she was already retired and could devote more time to it, but never forgot his land and he often referred to it in his literary writings and press releases». Therefore, when his great-grandfather’s funeral returns from Mexico, “we hope that he will be received with all honors.”
You have to love Terreta, make people love her, and realize that love and find it in something positive, something that has life, rather than limiting it to fluctuations of an unequal instinct, an emotion. primitive, fed by vague memories. Another lesson from Rafael Altamira in one of these articles.