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Everyone The memories of the February 23, 1981, we all remember what we were doing that afternoon when a group of soldiers stormed the House of Representatives for the purpose of trying to return, by force, not very distant past. Fortunately, after a night of mysterious negotiations, even without fully clarify all was a shock.
But in Granada, another Feb. 23 marked its history, I refer to 1502, when, by order of Cardinal Cisneros, burned more than 4,000 books in the plaza Bibarrambla. With this burning was intended to annihilate the culture of an entire people. Cisneros's arrival ended the era of tolerance Capitulaciones promised in 1492 and the Catholic Monarchs entrusted the mission to evangelize the population of Granada.
Granada, the last representative of civilization was the city Hispano cultured in Spain. Diplomatic letters were written in verse by handwriting experts and the manuscripts were written with inks of different colors. Not only were burned Korans were burned whole libraries, including the madrasa, the University of Granada, all books on mathematics, astronomy, poetry, philosophy ... with silver bindings were not only important for its content, but also its aesthetic value.
only escaped fire medical books that were most numerous, since the Arabs were great experts in this field. Also manuscripts and codices found more than five hundred years in the interior walls, to make reforms in Moorish houses, were hidden in the hope that the Christian occupation was temporary.
All of these books that survived are the library of the University of Alcalá de Henares, founded by Cardinal Cisneros, including the Andalusian Qur'an only found in Spain. Several associations have for years called Granada all those books back to Granada, where they had to leave. LOLA
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