Ricardo Monner Sans, Ana Fortuny Alemany - Juramento Theolongo - 1885

Barcelona. 1885. Leather, reliefs, and gilding. 28X18. 15 pages. Wedding remembrance between Ricardo Monner Sans and Ana (Anita) Fortuny Alemany. Ricardo Monner Sans, a poet and sergeant in the Third Carlist War, later served as Spain's consul in Hawaii from 1882 until he settled permanently in Argentina in 1889, where he worked as a high school teacher. In the 19th century, during the Hispanic American independence movements, the Catalan Monner captured in Buenos Aires the 'nostalgia for the Motherland' that was felt across the continent and conceived October 12 as an 'affective union of Spain with these recent republics'; as a 'Hispano-American fraternity'; as the 'celebration of the great Hispanic-American family.' Monner Sans also participated, two decades later, in the first celebration of October 12 organized by the Iberian-American Union in 1914 in Málaga, where Monner proposed the name 'Hispano-American Festival' to replace 'Festival of the Race'.