Don Marcelino is without doubt the most universally pleasant. It is a figure that alone justifies the existence of a people and a nation. It is beyond any precision, latest and greatest of our humanity. Sick
hopelessly what can be called "congenital bibliophile, a child was a sage in the broadest sense of the meaning. Astonished the greatest of the time since childhood and formed a library whose legacy to the city of Santander is the contribution of the greatest treasure ever received by the city.
The former member of the Royal English Academy, Director of the Royal Academy of History and the greatest Director of the National Library was ahead of his time, indeed, was above his kind. That Catholic integrated, suffered machamartillo the black arts of the progressives of his time, as when after being elected senator for the University of Oviedo on March 19, 1893 and finish the re-election was made in the last minute candidacy of Krausist and friend of Giner de los Rios, Juan Claw, who miraculously defeated in the first hand and loosely in the next. It would be a few decades until a juntaletras whose only credential was that he won the Premio Planeta and, thus discrediting the exalted as the eminent polygraph, sought out his portrait in the garden of the National Library.
He described the eminent poet José del Rio Sáinz mountain that effigy:
sitting in his chair learnedly
is the master a king on his throne;
of life before it flows source
symbolized in the open folio
Don Marcelino, who loved intensely Catalonia, not in vain studied in Barcelona in his youth, he read Catalan his speech on the occasion of the Floral Games Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1888 referred to the Catalan of the following ways:
"The Catalan, although it is a purely rhetorical aberration, which is against good sense and the interests of all working Catalan must be pursued relentlessly, because it can be dangerous if you take it by the federal and Amirall, which have already begun to twist and distort the literary character who at first had. "
"To be me biggest fan of the Catalan people and feel real sympathy for the modern revival of their culture, always felt real revulsion toward archaic, romantic, outdated, false troubadour who took his first steps, even in the writings of eminent wits. "
It is a pleasure to follow the steps in the life of one of the most famous and illustrious sons of Spain, who in the prime time expressing regret only die with the number of books that were read. for this I recommend the biography written by Miguel Artigas, who was Director of the Municipal Library or the Menendez Pelayo who held the same position, Enrique Sánchez Reyes, who was National Centennial Award Menéndez Pelayo in 1956.
The author of works such as The History of Heterodox, English translators Library, Study of Aesthetic Ideas and many others deserve to be met and remembered as the bulwark of Hispanic was and is.
