Política y cultura en el tránsito entre el Antiguo Régimen y el Liberalismo. La actividad y el testimonio del literato José Musso y Valiente (1785-1838)

Abstract

The writer José Musso (1785-1838) is very little known today, but he was a figure of enormous activity in the cultural plots that were woven with political activity during the twenties and thirties of the nineteenth century, a particularly turbulent time in our history. After the trauma of the War of Independence, the Lorca author fully entered politics and literature during the Liberal Triennium and established a relationship with a large part of the predominant characters of the moment, throughout the ominous decade and the subsequent implantation of the liberal system. Especially interesting to achieve a fresco of the period is the reading of his autobiographical writings, still largely unpublished, which, together with his copious correspondence, offer a privileged overview of a few years of great social and political changes.