Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo
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Gabriel Alvarez de Toledo y Pellicer , (Seville
, 15 March 1662 - Madrid, 17 January 1714), Founder Member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1713, Secretary of the King of Spain and a Knight of the Military Order of Alcantara . Royal Librarian of King Felipe V of Spain, because the rules established that the Director should be the King Confessor, at the time Pedro Robinet who delegated the day to day running and administration into Gabriel.
To study the first Royal Librarians (mainly jesuits, and Royal Confessors) and the Effective day to day Royal Library Directors it is worth mentioning them for researching the purchases and compulsory input of books arriving to the Library:
General Directors of the Royal Library:
1712-1715 : Pedro Robinet, French, Jesuit.
1715 : Esteban Lecompaseur, French, Jesuit.
1715-1723 : Guillermo Daubenton, French, Jesuit.
1723-1724 : Gabriel Bermúdez, ????.
1724 : Juan Morín, perhaps French. ????.
1724-1726 : Gabriel Bermúdez, see above, ????.
1726-1743 : Guillermo Clarke, Irish Jesuit.
1743-1747 : Jaime Antonio Febre, ????, perhaps French.
1751 : Francisco Rávago, Confessor of King Felipe V of Spain, Jesuit.
Some 15 years later the Jesuits will be ordered to leave all the territories governed by Spain and Portugal.
1755-1761 : Manuel Quintano Bonifaz, ????
The day to day Head Librarians were:
1712-1714 : Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo y Pellicer, Seville born aristocrat, (1662–1714).
1715-1735 : Juan Ferreras
y García, a priest.
1735-1751 : Blas Nasarre or also, Blas Antonio de Nasarre y Férriz, (Alquézar, Huesca, 1689 - Madrid, 1751), cervantist, and prior of a convent in Galicia, but adscribing himself to the neoclassical tendencies of his time life, Member of the Royal Spanish Academy, (1695–1751):
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blas_Nasarre
1751-1783 : Juan Manuel de Santander y Zorrilla, Colegial del Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
, Canónigo Doctoral de la Santa Iglesia de Segovia
, Member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
Some of Don Gabriel poetic works were printed in 1744 by the rather roguish Salamanca University Professor of Mathematics and Astronomer Diego de Torres Villarroel
, (1694–1770), under the title La Burromaquia, (something like "Treatise on the things related to Donkeys"), accompanied of some 17th century mistical style religious poems quite good.
He was the author of a treatise on Historia de La Iglesia y el Mundo
Seville
Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
, 15 March 1662 - Madrid, 17 January 1714), Founder Member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1713, Secretary of the King of Spain and a Knight of the Military Order of Alcantara . Royal Librarian of King Felipe V of Spain, because the rules established that the Director should be the King Confessor, at the time Pedro Robinet who delegated the day to day running and administration into Gabriel.
To study the first Royal Librarians (mainly jesuits, and Royal Confessors) and the Effective day to day Royal Library Directors it is worth mentioning them for researching the purchases and compulsory input of books arriving to the Library:
General Directors of the Royal Library:
1712-1715 : Pedro Robinet, French, Jesuit.
1715 : Esteban Lecompaseur, French, Jesuit.
1715-1723 : Guillermo Daubenton, French, Jesuit.
1723-1724 : Gabriel Bermúdez, ????.
1724 : Juan Morín, perhaps French. ????.
1724-1726 : Gabriel Bermúdez, see above, ????.
1726-1743 : Guillermo Clarke, Irish Jesuit.
1743-1747 : Jaime Antonio Febre, ????, perhaps French.
1751 : Francisco Rávago, Confessor of King Felipe V of Spain, Jesuit.
Some 15 years later the Jesuits will be ordered to leave all the territories governed by Spain and Portugal.
1755-1761 : Manuel Quintano Bonifaz, ????
The day to day Head Librarians were:
1712-1714 : Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo y Pellicer, Seville born aristocrat, (1662–1714).
1715-1735 : Juan Ferreras
Juan Ferreras
Juan de Ferreras y García , Spanish priest who became one of the founder members of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1713 under King Philip V of Spain....
y García, a priest.
1735-1751 : Blas Nasarre or also, Blas Antonio de Nasarre y Férriz, (Alquézar, Huesca, 1689 - Madrid, 1751), cervantist, and prior of a convent in Galicia, but adscribing himself to the neoclassical tendencies of his time life, Member of the Royal Spanish Academy, (1695–1751):
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blas_Nasarre
1751-1783 : Juan Manuel de Santander y Zorrilla, Colegial del Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
Alcalá de Henares
Alcalá de Henares , meaning Citadel on the river Henares, is a Spanish city, whose historical centre is one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, and one of the first bishoprics founded in Spain...
, Canónigo Doctoral de la Santa Iglesia de Segovia
Segovia
Segovia is a city in Spain, the capital of Segovia Province in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is situated north of Madrid, 30 minutes by high speed train. The municipality counts some 55,500 inhabitants.-Etymology:...
, Member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
Some of Don Gabriel poetic works were printed in 1744 by the rather roguish Salamanca University Professor of Mathematics and Astronomer Diego de Torres Villarroel
Diego de Torres Villarroel
Diego de Torres Villarroel was a Spanish writer, poet, dramatist, doctor, mathematician, priest and professor of the University of Salamanca. His most famous work is his autobiography, Vida, ascendencia, nacimiento, crianza y aventuras del Doctor Don Diego de Torres Villarroel .-Life:Villarroel...
, (1694–1770), under the title La Burromaquia, (something like "Treatise on the things related to Donkeys"), accompanied of some 17th century mistical style religious poems quite good.
He was the author of a treatise on Historia de La Iglesia y el Mundo