Francisco Martínez de la Rosa
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The Most Excellent Don Francisco Martínez de la Rosa KOGF |
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| Prime Minister of Spain | |
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In office January 10, 1834 – June 7, 1835 |
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| Monarch | Isabella II |
| Succeeded by | José María Queipo de Llano Ruiz de Saravia, Count of Toreno |
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In office 1820–1823 |
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| Monarch | Ferdinand VII |
| Succeeded by | None |
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| Born | March 10, 1787 Granada, Spain |
| Died | February 7, 1862 (aged 74) Madrid |
| Political party | Realista Moderado |
| Religion | Catholic |
Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo (March 10, 1787 – February 7, 1862) was a Spanish statesman and dramatist.
He was born at Granada, and educated at the university there.
He won popularity with a series of epigrams on local celebrities published under the title of El Cementerio de momo. During the struggle against Napoleon he took the patriotic side, was elected deputy, and at Cadiz produced his first play, Lo que puede un empleo, a prose comedy in the manner of the younger Leandro Fernández de Moratín. La Viuda de Padilia (1814), a tragedy modelled upon Alfieri, was less acceptable to the Spanish public.
Meanwhile, the author became more and more engulfed in politics, and in 1814 was banished to Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera on the Barbary Coast, where he remained until 1820, when he was suddenly recalled and appointed prime minister. During the next three years he was the most unpopular man in Spain; denounced as a revolutionist by the Conservatives and as a reactionary by the Liberals, he alienated the sympathies of all parties, and his rhetoric earned for him the contemptuous nickname of Rosita la Pastelera (Rosie the compromiser/cake maker).
Exiled in 1823, he took refuge in Paris, where he issued his Obras literarias (1827), including his Arte poética, in which he exaggerated the literary theories already promulgated by Luzan.
Returning to Spain in 1831, he became prime minister on the death of Ferdinand VII, but proved incapable of coping with the insurrectionary movement and resigned in 1834. It is worth noting that, before retiring, Martinez de la Rosa, as President of the Cabinet, approved the royal decree that finally abolished the Spanish Inquisition.
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