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In Zaragoza Weekly, Vol. 197 of May 1, 1800, pp.268-272, appeared published a poetic composition whose title reads:
A Christobal Columbus in the discovery of the New World . Oda, composed by Don Francisco Sanchez at the Real Seminario de Nobles in Madrid on December 7, 1799 for the Opposition to the Chair of Poetics.
The poem, believed lost, is among the funds of the National Library of Spain, in its Digital Newspaper Library digitized. Result, it has been possible to find.
It is with absolute certainty, of a work of Salamanca poet Francisco Sánchez Barbero (Moriñigo, 1764 – Melilla, 1819), this ode so eagerly sought and academic researcher Leopoldo Augusto de Cueto and regretted not being able to include among the poems of that in his lyric poets of the eighteenth century .
"What we feel unable to give birth between Sánchez Barbero’s poetry is his ode to the expedition of Columbus, Quintana mentioned in the first edition of his poems. It has been eagerly sought after by the most distinguished bibliographers in Madrid, Salamanca and Seville. But in vain: handwritten or printed or this work is in major public and private libraries. Don Julián Sánchez Ruano, tired of fruitless research, felt that his illustrious ancestor wrote the ode not completely, but some pieces that showed his friend Quintana "(Volume II, p.592, note).
Leopoldo Augusto de Cueto had news of this ode by two short fragments quoted by Quintana, followed by a complimentary sick comment. In the first edition of the Poems of Manuel Josef Quintana, 1802, pp.165-166, as a note to a verse of the ode to the sea , reads:
"I can not deny the taste of these beautiful verses to cite here a modern ode to the Columbus expedition.
……. At the port, Friends,
Your, run and Fly away, that I hope there.
Dixo and opened before
Stormy sonante piélago.
Dixo and ship the salty foam
Cutting goes silent …..
Among the delicate and fragile table,
And the fickle sea vague uncertain
your life. Hear the mighty roar
Of the waves lifted sky
Bramar winds, pole tremble,
And your order announcing
the dreadful thunder rumbling,
What poetry! And most admire when you know it is a composition made within twenty-four hours without any help books or in opposition to the Chair of Poetics of the Real Seminario de Nobles in Madrid. Its author D. Francisco Sánchez will not disappoint the hopes of Spanish literature who has conceived by this and a few other of his works are known. "
So far no news that had published the ode Columbus Sanchez Barbero had, and does not appear as his work collected in volume VII of the Bibliography of eighteenth century Spanish authors , Aguilar Pinal, and they are on some repertoire is the name of Francisco Sanchez, because he had no present or ignore the fact that one used to sign his works when he did, regardless of his middle name. Moreover, students of the life and work of Sánchez Barbero know, if anything, just quoting verses Quintana.
Needless to say Cueto formed from the news Quintana, an approximate title for the poem, in the wrong part, it should be noted, however, that letters always referred to her as the ode to Columbus. Stranger still is that never made mention of the circumstances that gave rise to the ode, namely, that this was an exercise in opposition to the Chair of Poetics Real Seminario de Nobles in Madrid convened in 1799, nor the fact Sánchez Barbero that she arose.
In March 1862 Ramon Innkeeper Roman Cueto made available to this plea, a collection of unpublished poems and a biography of Sánchez Barbero. Even if he had started years before the work of collecting, so that makes the work of this, everything seems to point to the fact that it was only when he began to deal – at least consistently – it therefore in correspondence Cueto does not appear to be conserved, to my knowledge, Sanchez Barbero mention of earlier date. I do not think, therefore, that Cueto could inquire about the Rucabado Hermenegildo Ignacio, librarian extensive bibliographical knowledge, but an old man around 1855 and died in 1857 with over forty years of service in the Royal Library Studies San Isidro , and which already in 1813 was 4th official. Colleague was therefore Sanchez Barbero, in the 2nd official date of the library, and even presumably friend, as it seems to be the recipient of the Latin ode No. XIV, published in 1935 by C. Aniceto Rodríguez. I would add, in passing, although I believe that the ode in question are, in the National Library a manuscript, the MSS/12932/6, which Cueto not earned for editing, which comes from him is preserved in the Luis de Usoz collection is a copy of the original prose and verse that had E. Sánchez Barbero [Sic: Hermenegildo written without aitch] Rucabado.
José Simón Díaz, in his History of the Imperial College of Madrid, Volume II (1959), gives notice of this opposition to the Chair of Poetics (pp.203-204) and one of the exercises Francisco Sánchez (p.152) as well as in other passages of Francisco Sánchez Barbero.
I suspect the famous bibliographer not realized that the said Francisco Sanchez was actually Francisco Sánchez Barbero, and listed separately in the index of names.
Luis Miguel Poveda Pradas
Researcher
