Historia de Barcelona

Categoría: A History of the Inquisition of Spain

  • Tras largas discusiones protocolarias, 200 latigazos para el bígamo Medrano

    How purely ministerial were the functions of the public officials in all that related to the Inquisition, even under Philip V, was illustrated when, at Barcelona, in an auto de fe, June 28, 1715, a bigamist named Medrano was sentenced to two hundred lashes to be inflicted on the 30th. On the 29th word was sent to the public executioner to be ready to administer them, but the Viceroy, the Marquis of Castel-Rodrigo, forbade the executioner to act until he should give permission, holding that no public punishment should be inflicted until he should be officially notified of the sentence. There were hasty conferences and debates, lasting to nearly midnight, and it was not until 7 A.M. of the 30th that the marquis gave way and the sentence was executed. The tribunal reported the affair to the Suprema, which replied in the name of the king, diplomatically thanking the marquis and rebuking his legal adviser, who was told that it was his duty and that of all officials to be obedient to the Inquisition.

  • Joan Maragall sobre el nacimiento de su hija, Helena

    A Josep Soler i Miquel

    [Barcelona, entre el 19 i el 31 del] maig de 1893

    Amic Pep:

    Vos faig saber que des de dijous passat a les deu de la nit sóc pare d’una noia que està inscrita en lo registre civil amb els noms d’Helena-Maria-Rosa-Clara. La vaig fer posar amb H. La meva dona té una febreta que no li podem treure. Lo part i les conseqüències és una angúnia horrorosa. Jo em passejava pel pis com una fiera engabiada, fumant cigarrillos i murmurant:

    Omai disprezza
    Te, la natura, il brutto
    Poter, che ascoso, a comun danno impera,
    E l’infinita vanità del tutto.

    ¿Per què un sofrir tan horrible, al capdavall per posar al món un ser que els 10.000 per 1 no tenen res de particular i han de passar desapercibits?
    Tots el[s] nostres optimismes són malaltissos, són resignacions, o són merament transcendentals.
    La vida contemplada, considerada per sobre i en total és hermosa: la vida viscuda és trista.

    Amaro e noia
    La vita, altro mai nulla; e fango é il mondo.

    Escriviu-me aviat i contestaré també a la vostra que acabo de rebre. Discutirem per recreo de l’esperit: amb teories no s’arregla res. Però nosaltres hem vingut al món per espectadors que fan comentaris, per res més.
    Perdoneu-me. Adéu-siau

    Joan