La libertad y la cárcel, o el triste sino del impresor liberal Miguel Domingo a comienzos del siglo XIX

Abstract

The aim of this study is to summarise the figure of the printer and bookseller Miguel Domingo, and to reflect the milestones in his professional life through his liberal work and ideas, the criticism expressed by his enemies, and the defence made by his supporters. His career was, certainly, that of someone completely devoted to the liberty and modernization of Spain, as well as an avid defender of its benefits. He had to pay a high price because of such eagerness, as he was sentenced to jail and heavily fined with Carlos IV, and sent to prison once again in 1814 for four years, in times of Fernando VII, on the island of Ibiza, away from his family. As if this were not enough, the culmination of his career was his exile in 1823, with the end of the Trienio Liberal.