In Luis González Bravo's radical stage: El Guirigay and the Cencerradas of Ibrahim Clarete

Abstract

Essay on the first stage of the public life of the conservative politician of the Elizabethan reign Luis González Bravo. Characterized by its attachment to the radical progressivism, the study first proceeds to specify the political and social features that define it. Next, it faces his work as a political journalist focused on the newspapers in which he is one of its main editors, El Guirigay and La Legalidad. It is the acid and critical articles, written in the first under the title of “Cencerradas” and the signature of Ibrahim Clarete, which make the high institutions of the State and with moderate politicians acquire a certain reputation as a complacent and contemptuous writer. Contradictorily, it will be with them that he will later have to live with. To such a point of presiding over the governments of the long moderate stage with which the Elizabethan reign begins and ends.