Juan Germán Roscio y el pensamiento antiliberal

Abstract

In the context of the reign of Ferdinand VII and the Latin American Independence, Juan German Roscio’s anti-liberal thinking is analyzed, with particular regard to El triunfo de la libertad sobre el despotismo (1817) and the Homilia del Cardenal Chiaramonti (1817). In these and other texts, as well as in his collection of letters, Roscio refers to some of the clerics of that time, such as fray Diego de Cadiz and Bishop Andres Esteban y Gomez, both famous for his homilies and anti-liberal preaching, whom the Venezuelan national hero tries to deprive of authority.