Patricio de la Escosura

PATRICIO DE LA ESCOSURA (Madrid, 1807- 1878).
"Manual de Mitología compendio de la historia de los Dioses, Héroes y más notables acontecimientos de los tiempo fabulosos de Grecia y Roma con una noticia relativa a los ídolos y sus ritos en los dos mundos, y una tabla analítica de materias dispuestas por orden alfabético para facilitar la inteligencia de los mejores autores antiguos y modernos".
Printer: P. Mellado. Madrid, 1845.
It has illustrations and Spanish paper covers.
Presents rust stains.
Measurements: 16 x 11 x 3 cm.
Patricio de la Escosura Morrogh was a Spanish politician, journalist, playwright and author associated with the romantic school. He was deputy for Palencia, Zaragoza, Oviedo and Cadiz (1846-1871), senator for Cordoba (1872-1873) and member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He was Minister of the Interior for five weeks in 1847 and six months in 1856. He was also Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain in Portugal (1855) and Germany (1872-1874). Between 1842 and 1844, Artistic and Monumental Spain was published in Paris, a masterpiece of Spanish romanticism, with descriptive texts by Patricio de la Escosura. He also wrote narrative poems imitating his friend Espronceda. As a critic and researcher he published Estudios históricos sobre las costumbres españolas (1851), Manual de mitología (1845) and a study on the theater of Pedro Calderón de la Barca.