The Princes inaugurate the cycle dedicated to Menéndez Pelayo The Real Academy of History remembers to the author in its 150 anniversary R. C.
Don Felipe and Doña Letizia, in one of its few recent appearances Madrid the director of the Real Academy of History, Gonzalo Anes, assured yesterday that "to recall to Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo it is a justice action", in the inauguration of the cycle of conferences on the historian, presided over by Princes de Asturias. Doña Letizia, embarrassed of three months and to who saw itself the past for the last time in public 22 of October in the delivery of the Prizes Prince of Asturias in Oviedo, accompanied yesterday in the evening late to Don Felipe in the inauguration of the cycle of conferences. Anes pronounced a speech in which it glossed the figure and what it meant in the history of his country the one that was member and director egregio of the Real Academy of History between 1909 and 1912, and of which anniversary of its birth is marked the 150, happened the 3 of November of 1856 in Santander, reason why it has organized a cycle of conferences, as well as a exhibition on his life and its work. In his intervention, the director of the Academy of History assured that "they are also patriotism actions, valuing to a wise person that dedicated all its life to the study of the History of Spain in its literary, scientific and philosophical productions, exiling errors and common places, that, unfortunately, instead of to have surpassed they have become more serious lately". And it, added Anes, by the "political implications that generate them and reason why they affect negatively to the equality of the Spaniards before the law, to the solidarity and the pacific and creative coexistence of the Spaniards". Act took part also in academic Carlos Dry Mountain, who in conference inaugural assured that when died the homenajeado one, in 1912, the decline of the Restoration, a stage of exceptional development began and prosperity for the contemporary Spain, that had like datum point in the intellectual plane a unique figure, the one of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo. The Princes presided over the ceremony of inauguration of the cycle of conferences, that will extend until the next day 1 of December, and in which they will take part, among others, Antonio Carballo Lake, Luis Suárez, Carmen Sanz, Carmen Churches, Pedro Cherry tree, Manuel Jesus González and Cattle Quintín Village. After the inaugural act, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia visited a exhibition in whom several made pictures are Menéndez Pelayo, as well as books, documents, photographies and diverse objects that allow to locate to the historian in their time. Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo (Santander, 1856-1912), investigator, historian, great publishing polígrafo and, was in addition to academic of History, member of the Real Spanish Academy, the one of Beautiful Arts of San Fernando and the one of Moral and Political Sciences, as well as director of the National Library from 1898.
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