tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1549454354240482962024-02-07T18:57:05.563-08:00Maximilian and Carlota: A Blog for ResearchersC.M. Mayo's blog about resources for researchers-- both serious and armchair-- of the tumultuous period of Mexican history known as the Second Empire or the French Intervention. News, book reviews, links and more. Updated on Tuesdays. A veces en español.C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-78915320337140949672023-09-29T15:10:00.002-07:002023-09-29T15:10:22.623-07:00<p> testing</p>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-48225756150322672682022-01-23T03:48:00.001-08:002023-09-29T14:51:03.091-07:00Madam Mayo Blog Update<p>This blog is posting on Mondays at <a href="http://www.madam-mayo.com">www.madam-mayo.com</a>. </p>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-21159229769596001112021-02-07T07:53:00.005-08:002021-02-07T07:54:34.527-08:00Madam Mayo Blog Update<p>Update: It's turning out to be quite a project to migrate the posts over to the new self-hosted Wordpress blog, <a href="http://www.madam-mayo.com">www.madam-mayo.com</a>, but I'm working on it. In the meantime, I hope you will visit the archives of this blog, and also the posts tagged<a href="https://madam-mayo.com/mexico/"> #Mexico at www.madam-mayo.com</a> .</p><p><br /></p>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-70673170439164752922019-05-24T14:29:00.004-07:002019-05-24T14:30:18.127-07:00Update: "Madam Mayo" Blog's "Mexico" PageThe past few months have been taken up with various projects, among them, a batch of website and blog redesigns and overhauls. From here on out any posts apropos of Maximilian, Carlota, the general period, and my various works about it, will be posted at my main blog, <a href="https://madam-mayo.com/mexico/"><i>Madam Mayo</i>, and archived under "Mexico."</a><br />
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One of the excellent things about having launched the migration of "Madam Mayo" from blogger to self-hosted WordPress is that I finally figured out how to make "pages," so there is a now a page devoted to all posts on Mexico. That page, of course, includes a link to this blog / archive.<br />
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<b>Again, look for new posts over at Madam Mayo, category "Mexico," and with tags including "Maximilian."</b><br />
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This blog archive here on blogger will remain as is for as long as Google allows it. There is also a rich resource page for researchers on my main webpage, <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/maximilian.html">www.cmmayo.com, "Maximilian."</a><br />
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> Your comments are always welcome. <a href="https://madam-mayo.com/contact/">Write to me here.</a>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-82052171239348241212018-05-31T09:53:00.002-07:002018-05-31T10:02:25.436-07:00A Portrait of Maximilian<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The article notes that the portrait comes with a letter of 1865 from Juan Nepomuceno Almonte, thanking don Angel Bustamente for his services to the Emperor. This was probably for his hospitality on one of Maximilian's tours. If I could get to my copy of Konrad Ratz and Amparo Temexicuapan's book on Maximilain's travels I could probably figure out the specifics.<br />
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Almonte was a prime mover in bringing Maximilian to Mexico and, in 1865, he served as Mariscal de la Corte, or Court Chamberlain.<br />
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There are probably a good number of these portraits floating about Mexico... I have yet to see one displayed anyone's living room, however.<br />
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A tidbit of a memory comes to mind. When I first came to Mexico and started work at ITAM, a private university, back in the 1980s, the office I inherited included a large closet, and inside that I found a portrait of Karl Marx. It was swiftly removed by its owner, who taken a better, corner office. He liked to joke that he was a closet Marxist. </div>
C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-15278423163774436412017-11-05T18:06:00.000-08:002017-11-05T18:07:21.730-08:00Maximilian's RECOLLECTIONS OF MY LIFE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Back when.... many years ago.... when I was researching <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/last-prince-of-the-mexican-empire.html">my novel</a> I paid more than I would ever like to admit to get my hands on a xerox copy of the three volume set of the English translation of Maximilian's <i>Recollections of My Life.</i> Behold, gentle reader and avid researcher, it is <a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=Maximilian%2C%20Recollections%20of%20My%20Life">now available for free on archive.org.</a><br />
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Alas, although nonetheless very interesting, and providing a window onto innumerable topics, and his complex and exhuberant personality, Maximilian's recollections are about his travels from 1851- 1860, <i>before</i> coming to Mexico.<br />
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<a href="https://archive.org/stream/recollectionsofm01maxiuoft#page/n3/mode/2up">Vol. I covers Italy, then Andalusia and Granada</a><br />
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<a href="https://archive.org/details/recollectionsofm02maxiuoft">Vol. II. covers Messina, Palermo, Syracuse, The Balearic islands, Valencia and Murcia, Lisbon, Madeira, Algiers, Albania, and under the title "Across the Line," a journey from the Adriatic out the Straights of Gibraltar and towards South America</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://archive.org/details/recollectionsofm03maxiuoft">Vol. III covers Brazil</a><br />
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> Your comments are always welcome. <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/comments.html">Write to me here.</a>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-72136729245246910742017-10-15T12:38:00.001-07:002017-11-02T12:30:12.938-07:00The Language of the Correspondence of Maximilian and CarlotaThose of you who follow this blog will have noted that the posts have become infrequent. My novel, <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/last-prince-of-the-mexican-empire.html"><i>The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire</i> </a>is now eight years old, and its Spanish translation by Agustin Cadena, <i><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/espanol-el-ultimo-principe-del-imperio-mexicano.html">El último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano</a>,</i> is seven years old, and I have since moved on to the other projects, among them, <i><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/SPIRITISTMANUAL/spiritist-manual-HOME.html">Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution</a></i> (2014), <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/ARTICLES/DISPATCH-KINDLE.html">"Dispatch from the Sister Republic or, Papelito Habla"</a> (2017), and the book I aim to finish in 2018, <i><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/World-Waiting-for-a-Dream/index.html">World Waiting for a Dream: A Turn in Far West Texas</a></i>. <b>But gentle reader, please be assured, I will be maintaining this blog indefinitely. </b>I appreciate your emails! Whenever some topic, event, or publication comes up that might be of interest to the general community of researchers on this most labyrinthian and fascinatingly transnational period of Mexican history, as often as possible, I will continue to post a note (or more) here.<br />
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This year has been an tumultuous one for me with multiple household moves, so I have fallen more than a bit behind with both my correspondence and my blogs. However, now that I have been able to move my library out of its jumble of cardboard boxes and into roomier quarters on nicely dusted and neatly labeled shelves, I am finally -- joy!!-- able to consult any given book with ease.<br />
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Recently, but when my library was still in its muddle of boxes, a writer friend, Amigo G., asked me if I knew, in which language did Maximilian and Carlota converse with each other? Immediately I recalled <a href="http://maximilian-carlota.blogspot.mx/2014/07/dr-konrad-ratz-december-20-1931-may-22.html">Konrad Ratz's</a> book, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Correspondencia-in%C3%A9dita-Maximiliano-Carlota-Historia/dp/9681669983">Correspondencia inédita entre Maximiliano y Carlota</a></i> (Unpublished Correspondence of Maximilian and Carlota), which is the authoritative answer to that subject. Now that this tome is on its properly labeled shelf, from which I can easily pull it out and have a look, I hereby offer up this brief post.<br />
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Originally published in German in 2000, Konrad Ratz's <i>Correspondencia inédita entre Maximiliano y Carlota</i> was published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in Mexico in 2003, translated into Spanish by Elsa Cecilia Frost. (Alas, I am unaware of any English translation.) The original documents are in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin.<br />
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No one was there to spy on them with a recording device but I should think it would be safe to assume that, in private, Maximilian and Carlota would have conversed in German, his native language and the language in which they wrote to each other. And happily for us, Maximilian and Carlota wrote to each other often, for they were often apart, traveling on official business. Writes Ratz (my translation from the Spanish translation, p. 42):<br />
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"The first surprise is the quantity of the correspondence. Whenever they were apart Maximilian and Carlota wrote to each other almost daily. The private character of this correspondence is shown by their having written in their own hand and in German. Carlota used her "paternal language"* in which she makes certain grammatical and spelling mistakes, for example with articles and tenses. Some phrases are literally translated from French, her maternal language** in which she thought. Taking this into account it is astonishing how fluently she writes in German, which of course she learned from intensive reading. Here and there appear turns of phrase in French, Italian, English and Spanish." </blockquote>
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In his prologue Dr. Ratz thanks his wife Herta for her assistance in deciphering the Gothic handwriting. It is my firm view that anyone who deciphers Gothic handwriting deserves a literary sainthood and a small altar with flowers refreshed daily. (I am not kidding! If you should ever feel so moved as to give yourself a prize-winning migraine, 30 seconds of attempting to read Gothic handwriting, that's the ticket.) <br />
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> Your comments are always welcome. Write to me <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/comments.html">here.</a>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-86049252998614925712017-09-25T14:24:00.003-07:002017-11-02T12:33:17.920-07:00Luis Reed Torres's New Book, El Libertador sin patria (The Liberator Without a Country)<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is a mirror post from my main blog, <a href="https://madammayo.blogspot.mx/2017/09/agustin-de-iturbide-liberator-without.html">Madam Mayo:</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />Last Thursday in the Club de Industriales in Mexico City historian Luis Reed Torres presented his latest book, </span><i>El Libertador sin patria </i><span style="background-color: white;">(The Liberator without a Country), a most extraordinary and illuminating collection of 19th century texts about Agustín de Iturbide, many of which he rescued from the deepest, mustiest recesses of the archives. For anyone interested in Mexican history, </span><i>El Libertador sin patria</i><span style="background-color: white;"> is a must-read work, and a must-have reference.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">For anyone interested in the Second Empire (reign of Maximilian) and the French Intervention, it is crucially important to understand the context, and the First Empire, which is the reign of Agustin de Iturbide.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">I hope to post a link to where you can find </span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">El Libertador sin patria</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;"> on-line very soon. In the meantime, for your reference, the ISBN is 978-607-97750-0-1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My prologue goes into detail about the relationship of Maximilian and the Iturbide Family.<br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">> Your comments are always welcome. </span><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/comments.html" style="color: #1178cc; text-decoration: none;">Write to me here.</a></span><br />
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Over on my main blog, <a href="http://madammayo.blogspot.com/2017/06/tulpa-max-or-afterlife-of-resurrection.html">Madam Mayo</a>, I just posted about a new essay in <i>Catamaran Literary Reader</i> and (in Spanish) in <i>Letras Libres, </i>on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Maximilian's execution.<br />
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C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-6257460974035164612016-11-05T13:46:00.001-07:002017-03-10T13:49:42.266-08:00"To Remember, To Understand": Transcript of a Keynote Speech On Researching and Writing The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Waaaay back in 2010-- Mexico's bicentennial year-- I gave the keynote speech for the meeting of the Board of Directors of the <a href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/">Harry Ransom Center</a> University of Texas Austin, and ever since I have been meaning to post the transcript. Herewith:</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is such an honor and a delight to be here tonight. First a big thank you to Thomas Staley, Director of the Harry Ransom Center, and Danielle Brunne Sigler, Curator of Academic Affairs. And another big thank you, de <i>corazón,</i> to Mexico's Consul General here in Austin, Ambassador Rosalba Ojeda.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">It was right here, in the Harry Ransom Center, that Ambassador Ojeda invited me to view the letters of Mexico's Emperor and Empress, Maximilian and Carlota</span>—<span style="color: black;"> if you haven't seen these extraordinary documents, you will</span>—<span style="color: black;"> they are in the wonderful exhibition "Viva Mexico's Independence."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/last-prince-of-the-mexican-empire.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" src="http://www.cmmayo.com/resources1/cvr-my-books/cvr-lpme.jpg" height="280" naturalsizeflag="0" width="202" /></a><span style="color: black;">This year, 2010, is a very special year to be celebrating Mexico's Independence, for it is both the bicentennial of Independence and the centennial of the Revolution. Sandwiched in between Independence and the Revolution is the 1860s, the time of Mexico's ferociously resisted second experiment in the monarchical form of government. This is the subject of my novel based on the true story: </span><i><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/last-prince-of-the-mexican-empire.html">The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire.</a></i></span><br />
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C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-15207150521625851952016-10-25T00:05:00.003-07:002016-10-25T00:07:04.149-07:00On Seeing as an Artist or, Five Techniques for a Journey to Einfühlung<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is the transcript of my remarks for the panel "Writing Across Borders and Cultures" on October 15, 2016 at the <a href="http://www.womenwritingthewest.org/">Women Writing the West Conference</a> in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It includes a brief reading from <i><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/last-prince-of-the-mexican-empire.html">The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire.</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">How many of you have been to Mexico? Well, viva Mexico! Here we are in New Mexico, Nuevo México. On this panel, with Dawn Wink and Kathryn Ferguson, it seems we are all about Mexico. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">But in this talk I would like to put on my sombrero, as it were, as an historical novelist, and although my novel, <i><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/last-prince-of-the-mexican-empire.html" style="color: #1178cc; text-decoration: none;">The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire</a>,</i> is about Mexico, I don’t want to talk so much about Mexico as I do five specific, simple, powerful techniques that have helped me, and that I hope will help you to see as an artist and write across borders and cultures. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the winter of 1866 Maximilian brought his court to his Imperial Residence in Cuernavaca, what is today the <a href="http://www.cuernavaca.gob.mx/turismo/?page_id=2454">Centro Cultural Jardín Borda</a>. This past Friday July 1, 2016, I participated on a panel for the presentation Mexican historian and novelist José N. Iturriaga's latest anthology, <i>Otros cien forasteros en Morelos.</i> Here is the note about that from my main blog, Madam Mayo:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-4945233136532345792016-06-05T20:10:00.000-07:002016-06-05T20:10:07.663-07:00Transcript Now Available: Monarchy in Mexico: An Interview with M.M. McAllen About MAXIMILIAN AND CARLOTA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At long last the complete transcript of my interview with historian <a href="http://mmmcallen.com/">M.M. McAllen</a> about her splendid narrative history, <i><a href="http://tupress.org/books/the-last-empire-of-mexico-the-reign-of-maximilian-and-carlota">Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico</a> </i>is now on-line. You can also listen in to the podcast anytime on either iTunes or podomatic, and yes, both the transcript and the podcast are free. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been away from this blog in recent months because I have been at work on <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/World-Waiting-for-a-Dream/index.html">a book about Far West Texas.</a> I hope to share news about that soon. The Abbé Domenech, who served as Maximilian's press secretary, will make a fleeting appearance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">More anon. </span>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-46901547628648742142016-01-05T18:05:00.001-08:002016-01-05T18:05:12.645-08:00A Conversation with M.M. McAllen About Her Book, Maximilian and Carlota<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Happy New Year! Just posted: <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/podcasts/m-m-mcallen.html">A Conversation with M.M. McAllen</a>, which is number 8 in my occasional podcast series "Conversations with Other Writers," about her magnificent narrative history<i> <span id="goog_860452900"></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1595341838/cmmay">Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico,</a><span id="goog_860452901"></span></i> published by Trinity University Press in 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"A deeply researched book about a period of Mexican history that, while vital for understanding modern Mexico and its relations with the United States and Europe, is of perhaps unparalleled cultural, political, and military complexity for such a short period."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">William H. Beezeley, coeditor of <i>The Oxford History of Mexico </i>says:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"A thorough, complete history of Mexico's second empire. The author leaves nothing untouched."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And Luis Alberto Urrea says:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"M.M. McAllen has written an important book that not only reads like a novel of fantastic inventions but is key to understanding the soul of Mexico today."</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">> Listen in to this podcast any time <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/podcasts/m-m-mcallen.html">here.</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'll be posting a complete transcript shortly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">>Visit M.M. McAllen at her website <a href="http://www.mmmcallen.com/">www.mmmcallen.com</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">> Listen in to all the other Conversations with Other Writers and/or read their transcripts <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/podcasts-conversations.html">here</a>.</b></span></span>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-81844972623842373162015-12-14T19:29:00.001-08:002015-12-14T19:48:53.307-08:00Professor Patricia Galeana in the Centro de Estudios de la Historia de MéxicoYou can now listen in anytime to Professor Galeana's talk (in Spanish) for the <a href="http://www.cehm.com.mx/ES/Paginas/Inicio.aspx">Centro de Estudios de la Historia de México</a> in Mexico City on November 18, 2015. Dr Galeana is a leading historian of the second Empire and her talk should prove invaluable for anyone researching this tumultuous period.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Just out in Spanish: <a href="http://estudioshistoricos.inah.gob.mx/?p=1991"><i><b>De la A a la Z: El conocimiento de las lenguas de México</b> </i>(Instituto Nacional de Antropologia y Historia, 2015) a collection of essays edited by Rodrigo Martínez Baracs and Salvador Rueda Smithers.</a> There is no English translation, but should that come to pass, the title might be <i>From A to Z: Knowledge of the Languages of Mexico.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The last chapter is by an author scholars of the second Empire will immediately recognize: Amparo Gómez Tepexicuapan: "Los decretos en náhuatl del emperador Maximiliano" or, Emperor Maximilian's Decrees in Nahuatl. Nahuatl is the language of the Nahuas, the largest group of indigenous people in Mexico and which includes the Mexica, also known as the Aztecs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While the chapter is 11 pages, its importance makes this anthology an essential addition to any library on the Second Empire. You can find a copy from CONACULTA and also look for it in <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/">WorldCat</a>. <b>ISBN 978-607-484-646-1</b></span></div>
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C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comMexico City, Federal District, Mexico19.4326077 -99.13320799999996818.953317199999997 -99.778654999999972 19.9118982 -98.487760999999963tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-75168008375637090582015-11-19T22:27:00.000-08:002015-11-20T11:34:29.949-08:00Carlota's Visit to Yucatán: VIAJE A YUCATAN por Carlota de Bélgica, prólogo de José N. Iturriaga<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">VIAJE A YUCATAN</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Por Carlota de Bélgica</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Prólogo de José N. Iturriaga</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">CONACULTA, México, 2011</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[You should be able to find a copy on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/yucat%C3%A1n-Spanish-Edition-Carlota-B%C3%A9lgica/dp/6074556806">amazon.com</a> and/or look it up on <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/">World Cat</a>.]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ever since it was published in 2011 I have been meaning to post a note about this handsome little book-- little indeed at a mere 75 pages, but nonetheless a vital contribution to the literature on the period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In November of 1865, for the monarchists, the political and military circumstances in Mexico had begun to deteriorate to such degree that Maximilian could not leave the capital for the few weeks his much-anticipated state visit to Yucatán would have required. In his stead he sent his empress, Carlota. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Less than a year from when she would suffer a permanent psychotic breakdown, Carlota reported on this exotic, politically crucial and physically dangerous journey-- a report I had the privilege to read in her own remarkably clear and steady handwriting, preserved in the archives in Vienna and, by the way, in a copy in the Library of Congress in Washington DC [where you will find it there under "Kaiser Maximilian von Mexiko" in the Manuscripts Division]. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It always seemed strange to me that Carlota's report on the Yucatán languished in the archives. I was glad indeed to see this edition brought out by Mexico's CONACULTA and with a thoughtful introduction by Mexican historian <a href="http://www.joseiturriaga.com/">José N. Iturriaga</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Stranger still to me was a visit to Brussels about a decade ago, to an exhibition of Aztec and Mayan artworks where I found not a single mention of Carlota's visit, nor of her report.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here is my translation of the book's back cover:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">María Carlota Amalia Agustina Victoria Clementina Leopoldina de Saxe-Coburg y Orleáns Boubon- Deux-Siciles y de Habsbourg-Lorraine, daughter of King Leopold I and Queen Louise of Belgium, was born on June 7, 1840. Carlota was the first cousin of Queen Victoria of English and, on her mother's side, granddaughter of King Louis Philippe of France. In 1857 Carlota married the Archduke Maximilian of Austria. She arrived in Mexico with him in 1864. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Summa Mexicana here presents a series of 24 texts written by Carlota between 1865 and 1866 in which she describes her visit as Empress of Mexico to the Yucatán peninsula. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In telegrams, speeches, reports, letters and notes, some to her husband and others to diplomats and family members, we discover the personality, at times simple, of a singular woman who is remembered in Mexico in myriad ways. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">More anon. </span>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-41886822905026770982015-11-12T19:57:00.002-08:002015-12-19T16:03:53.343-08:00Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjT46_c3c_rGJH0BCHDGiIpm9C50OoFPDoODzojwjZfgR3IkIonpYRT2-IT81jZMDti3TDfZ4qlXh3iUK99koY2J1wdauVTg_ftO9ZzJhS0HgCGSYpBimq1I4N7y96NC-7ysNJ8Do7LDMk/s1600/cvr-Met-Od-shadow-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjT46_c3c_rGJH0BCHDGiIpm9C50OoFPDoODzojwjZfgR3IkIonpYRT2-IT81jZMDti3TDfZ4qlXh3iUK99koY2J1wdauVTg_ftO9ZzJhS0HgCGSYpBimq1I4N7y96NC-7ysNJ8Do7LDMk/s320/cvr-Met-Od-shadow-1.jpg" width="258" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As the title says, my latest book is about <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/SPIRITISTMANUAL/spiritist-m-about-bhima.html">Francisco I. Madero's</a> Spiritist philosophy and the Mexican Revolution, which he launched in 1910-- more than thirty years after Maximilian's infamous demise on the Cerro de las Campanas in Querétaro. So it might seem that this has zip to do with Maximilian and the so-called Second Empire. <i>Au contraire</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although <i><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/SPIRITISTMANUAL/spiritist-manual-HOME.html">Metaphysical Odyssey</a> </i>is nonfiction, and intended to represent a serious scholarly contribution to the literature of the Revolution, it is also, to a degree, a personal memoir, for I write as a novelist, that is, as one who comes at the subject having written <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/last-prince-of-the-mexican-empire.html">fiction about Mexico's Second Empire</a>, and, as with my fiction, in this I attempt a work of literary art <i>per se</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am happy to report that the reviews for <i>Metaphsyical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution</i> have been good, including a lengthy one by José Mariano Leyva in <i><a href="http://www.letraslibres.com/revista/libros/odisea-hacia-la-amplitud-historiografica">Letras Libres</a></i>, and that the book won the National Indie Excellence Award for History. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I invite you to visit the book's website in <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/SPIRITISTMANUAL/spiritist-manual-HOME.html">English</a> or in <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/MANUAL-ESPIRITA-por-BHIMA/index.html">Spanish</a>. Both sites offer excerpts, links to find the book on amazon and Barnes & Noble, etc, as well as extensive resources for researchers. Among them are the podcast of <a href="http://cmmayo.podomatic.com/entry/2015-02-05T10_50_08-08_00">my recent talk for UCSD Center for US-Mexican Studies</a> and <a href="http://occultofpersonality.net/c-m-mayo-metaphysical-odyssey-into-the-mexican-revolution/">an interview with the leading esoteric podcast, "Occult of Personality</a>", hosted by Greg Kaminsky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Leyva, by the way, is the author of the excellent <a href="http://www.edicionescalyarena.com.mx/libros/el-ocaso-de-los-espiritus-espiritismo-en-mexico-en-el-siglo-xix/"><i>El ocaso de los espíritus. El espiritismo en México en el siglo XIX.</i> </a>Ediciones Cal y Arena, 2005. It seems that Kardec's books on Spiritism came to </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mexico with the French Intervention of the 1860s. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">More about that anon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Also in the pipeline for this blog: a note about Empress Carlota's state visit to Yucatán in 1865 and an in-depth interview with Mary Margaret McAllen, the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;"><a href="http://tupress.org/books/the-last-empire-of-mexico-the-reign-of-maximilian-and-carlota">Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico.</a></i><br />
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C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-70892258230850290212015-02-02T17:50:00.003-08:002020-02-01T07:17:56.533-08:00An Interview with Mexican Historian Alan Rojas Orzechowski about Maximilian's Court Painter, Santiago Rebull<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13px;">He was Maximilian's Court Painter, a leading figure in 19th century Mexican painting, and one of the important influences on Diego Rivera, yet few people have heard of Santiago Rebull</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">—</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13px;"> until now.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you're anywhere near Mexico City, make the effort to come in and visit the Santiago Rebull show at the <a href="http://www.museomuraldiegorivera.bellasartes.gob.mx/" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">Museo Mural Diego Rivera</a>. >> <a href="http://www.museomuraldiegorivera.bellasartes.gob.mx/" style="background-color: yellow; color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">More information here.</a> << For those aficionados of the history of the French Intervention, and in particular the brief reign of Maximilian von Habsburg as Emperor of Mexico, this is an especially important show not to miss, for Rebull was Maximilian's Court Painter and, interestingly, one of the few individuals close to the monarchy who managed to remain in Mexico and even thrive in subsequent decades under the Republic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Herewith, my interview with the show's curator, Mexican historian Alan Rojas Orzechowski.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>ALAN ROJAS ORZECHOWSKI: </b>The exhibition<i>Santiago Rebull: Los contornos de una historia</i> <i>(Santiago Rebull: The Outlines of a Story</i>) presented in the Museo Mural Diego Rivera is our own way to pay homage to one of the most creative minds of the Academic Movement in Mexico, an illustrious painter and educator who molded the minds of pupils such as Roberto Montenegro, Ángel Zárraga and Diego Rivera.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As an outstanding teacher, he taught Diego Rivera as a young student in the San Carlos Academy of Arts. Rivera in return, always considered him as a mentor and guide, respecting him as both, as an instructor and fellow artist. Exploiting this connection, the Museo Mural Diego Rivera and external curator Magaly Hernández, thought suitable to present an exhibition which honored Rebull´s artwork, underlining his influence on Rivera and his generation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Santiago Rebull</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>ARO: </b>I personally think that it was his undeniable talent as an artist which enabled him to continue teaching in San Carlos Academy during three more decades. In the immediate years after Maximilian's fall he did receive severe reproaches from fellow artists and local newspapers as a monarchist and “<i>afrancesado</i>” (pro-French), but he carried on painting members of the political, economic and cultural elite. As a testament of this, the portraits of Presidents Benito Juárez and Porfirio Díaz are shown in the exhibition. Both pieces are dated in the 1870s, less than a decade after the monarch´s disgrace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He retained his position as a teacher in San Carlos and also imparted drawing lessons to female pupils in the Colegio de Vizcaínas which was the only female and secular school in Mexico throughout the XVIII and XIX centuries. Along with his academic career, he remained a prolific painter, authoring remarkable pieces such as <i>La muerte de Marat (Marat's Death)</i> and several portraits.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>CMM:</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">What has been the reaction from art historians and historians of the Second Empire?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>ARO:</b> The Academic reaction towards the Second Empire, from both, historians and art historians, has changed through time. During the first half of the XX Century, the posture was very much aligned to the <i>official</i> history, characterized by a nationalist stance in which Maximilian was portrayed as an invader and many of his actions as an imposition to Mexicans. Nevertheless, this has shifted to a fascination for both, Maximilian and Charlotte, partly thanks to literature. En example of this, the book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/News-Empire-Fernando-del/dp/1564785335" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">Noticias del Imperio</a>(News from the Empire)</i> by Fernando del Paso or <i><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/last-prince-of-the-mexican-empire.html" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire</a></i>by C.M. Mayo. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Historians have now a much more benevolent gaze to the Second Empire, emphasizing on Maximilian's liberal measures that assisted the indigenous groups and regulated Ecclesiastic influence on civilians</span><span style="font-size: small;">—</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">which certainly made him unpopular with his original supporters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Art historians tend to be cautious with their judgments, stressing the continuity on San Carlos Academy trough its curriculum, academic cluster and board, all of them dramatically modified with the Republic's restoration. For instance, Eduardo Báez Macías, in his volume <i>History of the National School of Fine Arts (Old San Carlos Academy)</i>, mentions Maximilian's patronizing attitude towards Mexican art, believing it to be provincial to what he was used to in Europe. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My personal view is the opposite. Maximilian was a very intelligent ruler, he was aware of the necessity of his government's legitimacy, and knew that the main way to achieved it was through art and Court protocol. In the first case, he arose from the liberal vs. conservative´s discussion over national heroes and entrusted several talented young artists to create a portrait gallery of the <i>libertadores,</i> including characters such as Hidalgo and Iturbide along. Also, in several Imperial projects he preferred to employ talented Mexican students over well-known established European teachers as Eugenio Landesio or Pelegrín Clavé.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">CMM: Which of all the 68 pieces do you consider the most essential for understanding Rebull and his place in Mexican art?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>ARO: </b>Santiago Rebull is one of the most relevant XIX century painters in Mexico's history. He is a fundamental artist of the Academicism generation, and keystone to understanding the shift in the Art Scene towards the Vanguards and the Mexican Painting School of XX century, since he was an inexhaustible teacher to many of its participants. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One of Santiago Rebull's anchor pieces is<i>La muerte de Abel (Abel's Death).</i> It was painted in 1851 and earned him a scholarship to travel to Rome. He there attended the San Lucas Academy, a conservative catholic art school that followed the principles of the Nazarene Movement, specially influenced by the German painter Johann Friedrich Overbeck.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Rebull studied under the guidance of Academic artist Thomaso Consoni, who molded and perfected his technique through a careful series of exercises consisting on copying masterpieces from Renaissance </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">maestros</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Therefore, <i>La muerte de Abel</i> best represents the Academic ideals of trace, color use and proportions so faithfully followed by Rebull. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>ARO:</b> Unfortunately there was a piece we were unable to obtain, <i>El sacrificio de Isaac</i> (<i>Isaac's Sacrifice</i>) painted in 1858 during his sojourn in Italy and displayed in the Centennial Exposition of Philadelphia and later shown in New Orleans. The image is almost 118 inches tall and it’s a flawless sample of Rebull´s work during this formative voyage under Consoni's guidance. Alas, it was a crucial piece in the <a href="http://www.munal.com.mx/" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">National Museum of Art (MUNAL),</a> therefore, they were unable to lend it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was relatively unproblematic to secure the greater part of the assortment since it belongs to the painter's descendants, most of them eager to promote their ancestor's work. The rest of the pieces were graciously provided by significant institutions such as the <a href="http://www.artesvisuales.unam.mx/" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">San Carlos Academy</a>, the National Museum of Art and the <a href="http://www.colegiovizcainas.edu.mx/" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">Colegio de Vizcaínas</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Joaquín Ramírez</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I, ca</i>. 1866. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>ARO: </b>The original full length portrait of Maximilian was painted by Santiago Rebull in 1865. The Emperor took such pleasure on it that resulted on the appointment of Rebull as court painter; he was also awarded the <a href="http://www.museohistoriamexicana.org.mx/themes/coleccion/msxix_46.html" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">Order of Guadalupe</a>, the Empire's uppermost honor. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The monarch relocated the painting in Miramar Castle in Trieste, Italy that same year. Nonetheless he commissioned Joaquín Ramírez, another Academic painter to produce an exact copy of his portrait. Currently, the latter is part of the National Institute of Fine Arts collection and it's shown at <a href="http://www.mnh.inah.gob.mx/index_2.html" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">Chapultepec Castle</a>. We exhibit a contemporary reproduction of Ramírez painting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">CMM: The decorative bacchantes that Rebull painted for Chapultepec Castle-- were these Maximilian's idea or the artist's? What do you think was the message of such decorative paintings?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Santiago Rebull</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">del Alcázar de Chapultepec</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">, 1894.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>ARO: </b>The decorative bacchantes of Miravalle (Chapultepec) Castle were the Emperor's idea but Rebull only painted four of them during Maximilian's reign since the remaining two were created later, during President Porfirio Díaz administration when he occupied the castle as his summer residence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The message behind the bacchantes is clear: the ideal of graciousness that courtesan life implied. Maximilian was convinced that through art and elaborate court rituals his regime would gain the legitimacy and acceptance of Mexican elites. The creation of new titles, honors and reinstated old colonial titles were strategies followed by the sovereign. Thus, art and protocol were undeniably intertwined in the imperial residences. In the words of art historian Justino Fernández “Rebull planned six bacchantes figures […] the romanticism of the epoch finds here one of its classical expressions, these women, or better said, demigoddesses, highly idealized, wear the magnificence of their figure, in a movement attitude.” *</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">*</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Justino Fernández. </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">El arte del siglo XIX en México</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">, Mexico, Imprenta Universitaria, 1967,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">p. 77.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Santiago Rebull</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Portrait of Porfirio Díaz,</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1872</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>ARO: </b>His personal career is bound to the history of San Carlos Academy; we may consider him as a founding painter of Mexican art of the first decades of independence, when the elite and middle classes were shaping an identity of their own, which they found in the expressions of Academicism and Neoclassic Art. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">He perfected his education with the European sojourn</span><span style="font-size: small;">—</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">not remaining solely in Rome, but traveling extensively through Spain</span><span style="font-size: small;">—</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and returned with a refined paintbrush imbibed by Purism and Nazarene precepts. The preparative drawings are a testament of Rebull´s expertise of trace and copying, the two cornerstone of a XIX century Academic education. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Upon his return he grew as a prolific portraitist, the most important being that of Emperor Maximilian. But his talent was enjoyed not only by royals; both Presidents Benito Juárez and Porfirio Díaz were also depicted by the artist. The latter, is embodied as a young aspiring president, unlike later representations where an elderly and heavily ornamented military men is shown. Furthermore, common and quotidian characters were also portrayed by him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">Santiago Rebull</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rivera was educated at the San Carlos Academy of Arts in Mexico City where he was an accomplished student, tutored by the great artists of the XIX century Academic movement. He received a refined instruction from painters such as José Salomé Pina, José María Velasco and Santiago Rebull. Diego always felt in debt towards the latter, recognizing him as his mentor.</span></span></div>
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C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-18247779919015077792014-10-22T13:05:00.000-07:002014-10-22T13:45:11.988-07:00At the Texas Book Festival in Austin this Sunday October 26, 2014 @ 11 am<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2rsYjNlvbpLCYq6sgOpctMzYyeFxwSJSmKmrImWEpL3RjdADnncTbkjP20qzK66729DrpAgFZkijsj3CdZ4RseUgJZ-M4DLjFHkXmYxabWJIqFXkRCjs4HI5k4gqTaKyt9y-lSl5mimL2/s1600/TEXAS-BOOK-2014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2rsYjNlvbpLCYq6sgOpctMzYyeFxwSJSmKmrImWEpL3RjdADnncTbkjP20qzK66729DrpAgFZkijsj3CdZ4RseUgJZ-M4DLjFHkXmYxabWJIqFXkRCjs4HI5k4gqTaKyt9y-lSl5mimL2/s1600/TEXAS-BOOK-2014.jpg" height="253" width="320" /></a><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">October 26, 2014 </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">Austin, Texas</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br />Texas Book Festival</span></b><br />
<a href="http://www.texasbookfestival.org/festival-schedule/?selected_day=3&eid=1632#e1632" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">A LAYERED HISTORY:<br />C.M. Mayo and M.M. McAllen discuss a side of Mexico's history that, until now, has gone largely unexamined.</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/SPIRITISTMANUAL/spiritist-manual-HOME.html">Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution:<br />Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual</a></span></i><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">By C.M. Mayo</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://maximilian-carlota.blogspot.mx/2014/01/mm-mcallens-maximilian-and-carlota-last.html"><i>Maximilian and Carlota:</i></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://maximilian-carlota.blogspot.mx/2014/01/mm-mcallens-maximilian-and-carlota-last.html"><i>Europe's Last Empire in Mexico</i></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">11 am - 12 pm<br />Capitol Extension, Room E2.016</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;"><br /></span>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-48399093203354049292014-07-24T10:20:00.003-07:002014-07-25T13:12:26.264-07:00Dr. Konrad Ratz (December 20, 1931 - May 22, 2014)<div class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZNhz_x2qmqQh6qrN5g4096iYVbwCiH_AgqGgjrYa7faxOscjCqCbf4Xzbh3I74xI2SVrXYmrUSeyaY06nRnEZmJM9dUBqupChq2gRICrqgE8ybo2f_xYG9fn3C002OI24OXFPMwBNBoQ/s1600/tras-las-huellas-de-un-desconocido.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZNhz_x2qmqQh6qrN5g4096iYVbwCiH_AgqGgjrYa7faxOscjCqCbf4Xzbh3I74xI2SVrXYmrUSeyaY06nRnEZmJM9dUBqupChq2gRICrqgE8ybo2f_xYG9fn3C002OI24OXFPMwBNBoQ/s1600/tras-las-huellas-de-un-desconocido.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was very saddened to learn of the death of my friend, Dr. Konrad Ratz, translator, researcher, and writer whose contributions to our understanding of Maximilian von Habsburg and Mexico's Second Empire I admire more than I can say. Among his many works, all of them major contributions:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://madammayo.blogspot.mx/2009/07/konrad-ratz-tras-las-huellas-de-un.html">Tras las huellas de un desconocido: Nuevos datos y aspectos de Maximiliano de Habsburgo</a> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Link goes to my note in English about this excellent and very illuminating book.)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://maximilian-carlota.blogspot.mx/2013/02/los-viajes-de-maximiliano-en-mexico-by.html">Los viajes de Maximiliano de Maximiliano en México</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(co-authored with Amparo Gómez Tepexicuapan)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Link goes to my comments for the book's presentation in Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City.)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Correspondencia-in%C3%A9dita-Maximiliano-Carlota-Historia/dp/9681669983">Correspondencia inédita entre Maximiliano y Carlota</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/imperio-Maximiliano-diplom%C3%A1tico-prusiano-Spanish-ebook/dp/B00EARSXVW/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406220956&sr=1-3"></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/imperio-Maximiliano-diplom%C3%A1tico-prusiano-Spanish-ebook/dp/B00EARSXVW/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406220956&sr=1-3">El ocaso del imperio de Maximiliano visto por un diplomático prusiano</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maximilian und Juárez</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Band I Das Zweite Mexikanische Kaiserreich und die Republik</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Band II Querétaro-Chronik</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The musical:<br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/maximilian1867">http://www.myspace.com/maximilian1867</a><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/maximilianoycarlota">http://www.myspace.com/maximilianoycarlota</a></span></span></blockquote>
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</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6MVPeRLp0rFhfhtzDSYY3T1fAtkvDYRJ0KCEa7U2X8mwC-a2VVuxUMGblpFfAzxECkGa4d3Ord5uFj5bFMPFjkISiTIkmlCa9jz93wVa_zuVAj5TmCH0vGZ1l7W9tfSzwjYheHxwJ2B8/s1600/Unknown-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6MVPeRLp0rFhfhtzDSYY3T1fAtkvDYRJ0KCEa7U2X8mwC-a2VVuxUMGblpFfAzxECkGa4d3Ord5uFj5bFMPFjkISiTIkmlCa9jz93wVa_zuVAj5TmCH0vGZ1l7W9tfSzwjYheHxwJ2B8/s1600/Unknown-1.jpeg" height="200" width="140" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Very few researchers can work in both Spanish and German, fewer still with the skills to research Mexico's most complex and transnational period of the 19th century. We are fortunate indeed that Dr. Ratz dedicated so much effort and so many of his years to these tasks.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgETmAn9JvnnZJnKh6QbKCVsA8JVt8D0vCEMKuM_8NFa28pr5e-GJGcIszftl3GGRU9f2eCg5OCY8yAie7I7DjvCLQhz6GxTl7RVmAu1nr5QF2QEzDkEaae6vDkkBU8Cg6ht_eCJ0OOGGQ/s1600/viajes-max-cvr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgETmAn9JvnnZJnKh6QbKCVsA8JVt8D0vCEMKuM_8NFa28pr5e-GJGcIszftl3GGRU9f2eCg5OCY8yAie7I7DjvCLQhz6GxTl7RVmAu1nr5QF2QEzDkEaae6vDkkBU8Cg6ht_eCJ0OOGGQ/s1600/viajes-max-cvr.jpg" height="200" width="130" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From the note his son Wolfgang sent out (my translation from the Spanish):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He began his professional life in Bilbao as a translator for the automobile industry. After moving with his family to Vienna, he worked for many years as an economist and translator for the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. Following that, as Director of the Fund to Promote Research, he had the opportunity to support many innovative projects and young entrepreneurs. He also worked to help create similar institutions in various countries, among them, Mexico. In 1975 he received the Austrian Decoration for Arts and Science.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">... As a historian, he dedicated his life to researching Maximilian von Habsburg, and especially so during his retirement when he considered Mexico his "adopted country" and spent many marvelous years there with his second wife, Herta, making many unforgettable friendships.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Open to all cultures, his life created bridges among Austria, Spain, Switzerland, and Latin America.</span></blockquote>
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C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-89480422160372283532014-07-02T16:36:00.000-07:002014-07-02T16:36:40.261-07:00Luis Reed Torres' Biographies of Two Mexican Monarchist Generals, Joaquín Miramón and Manuel Ramírez de Arellano<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As mentioned in my <a href="http://maximilian-carlota.blogspot.mx/2014/07/biblioteca-francisco-xavier-calvigero.html">previous post</a>, there was a conference <a href="http://maximilian-carlota.blogspot.mx/2014/02/conference-about-maximilian-in-mexico.html">held recently on Maximilian at Mexico City's Centro de Estudios de la Historia de México</a> which had a spectacular lineup of scholars. The final speaker in the series, not in the original announcement, was Mexican historian Louis Reed Torres, who gave a wide-ranging and very entertaining talk with many rare photographs and special emphasis on his two recent biographies, both important contributions to our understanding of Mexico's Second Empire and the French Intervention:</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*<i>Joaquín Miramón, El General Olvidado</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Herido y prisionero, Juárez ordenó que lo mataran</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Vida y muerte del Hermano Mayor de Miguel, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Según su Archivo Militar y sus Documentos Privados)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[My translation of the above:</span><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Joaquín Miramón, The Forgotten General</span></i></b><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wounded and taken prisoner, his death was ordered by Juárez</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(The Life and death of the older brother of Miguel, </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">according to his military records and private documents)]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(La Azarosa Vida del General Manuel Ramírez de Arellano, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Niño Héroe de Chapultepec, Ideólogo Nacionalista y </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amigo Fraternal de Miguel Miramón, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Según su Archivo Inédito y sus Escritos)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[My translation of the above:</span><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maximilian's Artilleryman</span></i></b><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The adventurous life of General Manuel Ramírez de Arellano,</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of "Boy Heroes" of Chapultepec, Nationalist Ideologist and</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Close Friend of Miguel Miramón, </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to his Unpublished Archive and Writings]</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">General Ramírez de Arellano, head of the Mexican Imperial Artillery, was the of the few to have escaped death in Querétaro in 1867. After that, as Reed Torres puts it, "his life was a novel." Ten years later, on the point of returning to Mexico, he died of Roman fever in Remini, Italy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To get copies of either or both books, contact <span style="background-color: yellow;">rosaura.tapia (at) hotmail (dot) com</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's hoping these can be made available in Kindle!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">P.S. I will be speaking (in Spanish) with my translator, <a href="http://elvinoylahiel.blogspot.com/">Agustin Cadena</a>, about my novel based on the true story,<a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/last-prince-of-the-mexican-empire.html"> The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire </a>(<a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/espanol-el-ultimo-principe-del-imperio-mexicano.html">El último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano</a>) on Tuesday July 15, 2014 as part of the conference on Maximilian in fiction at Mexico City City's National Palace. The entire conference, which runs several more weeks, is free and open to the public. <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/espanol-noticias-palacio-2014.html" style="background-color: yellow;">Click here</a> for the full line up and more information.</span>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-62016730210612589512014-07-02T14:02:00.005-07:002014-07-02T14:10:14.746-07:00Biblioteca Francisco Xavier Clavigero in the Universidad Iberamericana in Mexico City<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two great conferences on Maximilian here in Mexico City-- one <a href="http://maximilian-carlota.blogspot.mx/2014/02/conference-about-maximilian-in-mexico.html">recently concluded</a> at the Centro de Estudos de la Historia de México, and another <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/espanol-noticias-palacio-2014.html">is in progress in Mexico's National Palace,</a> both free and open to the public and with a wide variety of accomplished scholars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wanted to note one of the talks from the former which took place on June 2, 2014: Teresa Matabuena's about the magnificent holdings related to the Second Empire in the archives of the Universidad Iberoamericana's <a href="http://www.bib.uia.mx/sitio/">Biblioteca Francisco X. Clavigero</a>. She mentioned just a few of them-- from my notes:</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. The manuscript "Les Vaincus du 5 du mai" (The Defeated of May 5)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by a French soldier, decorated with his own very elaborate and beautiful little paintings of birds and flowers. (Quite extraordinary to see.)</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2. Folletería (Pamphlettes)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Including "Reseña de las Fiestas de la Independencia" and "Calendario Histórico de Maximiliano."</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3. Revistas (Magazines)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Among them: <i>El Museo Universal,</i> a Spanish magazine thast was published bimonthly, and included many articles and notes on Maximilian; and <i>L'Illustration, Journal Universal</i>, a French magazine.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4. Books</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over 400, including<i> L'Empire de Maximilien</i> by Paul Gaulot, Paris, 1890; a copy of the very rare <i>Reglamento del ceremonial de la Corte</i> (the first edition of 1865); <i>Estudios de grabados por autores mexicanos</i>, a specially bound edition of 186(?) owned by Maximilian.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5. Concha Lombardo Collection</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Concha Lombardo was the wife of General Miramón, a key figure in the Second Empire and one of the two generals exceuted in 1867 with Maximilian. While the Miramón papers are in Palermo, Italy, this one contains many crucial items for anyone studying the period and its violent end.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6. A photographic album of some 200 personalities of the period</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The original has been returned to its owner, but a complete copy is in the catalog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">P.S. My talk about my novel, <i><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/last-prince-of-the-mexican-empire.html">The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire,</a></i> <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/espanol-el-ultimo-principe-del-imperio-mexicano.html">El ultimo príncipe del Imperio Mexicano</a>, together with my translator, the noted writer and poet <a href="http://elvinoylahiel.blogspot.com/">Agustín Cadena</a>, will be on Tuesday 15 of July in the conference in the National Palace. More about that<a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/espanol-noticias-palacio-2014.html"> here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who was Francisco Xavier Clavigero? An 18th century Mexican Jesuit and historian of note. Among his many works is <em style="background-color: white;">The History of [Lower] California</em><span style="background-color: white;">, translated from the Italian by Sara E. Lake, Stanford University Press, 1937. (Why Italian? There's a story.) I relied on Clavigero quite heavily in the section of my book, <i><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/miraculousair.html">Miraculous Air: Journey of as Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico</a>,</i> about the tragedy of the Jesuit missions. So just hearing his name, it seems like a little wave from an old amigo.</span></span>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-82660541747931501342014-06-23T16:52:00.002-07:002014-06-25T00:06:00.682-07:00In Mexico City: A Series of Conferences in the National Palace (Free) : "Maximiliano en México, una historia novelada"<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is all in Spanish, but I know many of you, dear readers, do speak it. So here's the big news: m</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">y novel, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/last-prince-of-the-mexican-empire.html" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire</a>, </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">translated by </span><a href="http://elvinoylahiel.blogspot.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-decoration: none;">Agustín Cadena</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> as</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/espanol-el-ultimo-principe-del-imperio-mexicano.html" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">El último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano</a></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, will be featured on Tuesday July 15, 2014 in the series of talks on (my translation) "Maximilian in Mexico, A Fictionalized History." </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The talks are all free and open to the public and held in the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;">Recinto de Homenaje a Don Benito Juárez of Mexico City's National Palace. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;">It will be a very special honor for me to present the novel together with <a href="http://elvinoylahiel.blogspot.com/" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">Agust</a></span><a href="http://elvinoylahiel.blogspot.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-decoration: none;">ín Cadena</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, for his translation is such a superb one; he is one of Mexico's most accomplished literary writers (and I have been honored to translated some of his short stories); and he is an expert on the novels of the 19th century. (Those baggy monsters… which mine most definitely is.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Don't know who Maximilian was and why Mexicans find him so endlessly worthy of<a href="http://maximilian-carlota.blogspot.mx/2014/02/conference-about-maximilian-in-mexico.html" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">conferences</a> and novels and conferences about the novels?<a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/maximilian.html" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"> Start here</a>.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Las escrituras de la historia son variables y a su vez coincidentes. La intrigante pasión por develar la memoria colectiva atrapa por igual tanto a historiadores como a novelistas. Mientras el historiador se ocupa de que los hechos narrados sean verdaderos, el novelista pretende sobre todo que estos sean verosímiles. Sin embargo, cuando el novelista se ocupa de narrar los “grandes” relatos de la historia, éste no puede fácilmente escabullirse del dato histórico, materia prima para el historiador. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Para conocer las claves de la novela histórica y experiencia creativa de la escritura en voz de algunos de sus representantes, el Recinto de Homenaje a Don Benito Juárez organizó el ciclo de entrevistas presenciales y conferencias: MAXIMILIANO EN MÉXICO, UNA HISTORIA NOVELADA.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Entrevista al autor por Bertha Hernández</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Entrevista al autor por Leopoldo Silberman</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Entrevista al autor por Bertha Hernández</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">UNA EMPERATRIZ EN LA NOCHE DE MARTHA ZAMORA</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Carlos Mújica</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Martes 26, 17 horas / Entrada Libre</span>C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154945435424048296.post-8657297793046745682014-02-21T22:09:00.000-08:002014-02-21T22:18:31.218-08:00Biografía (Biography) edited by Mílada Bazant (and my essay about El último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">una colección de ensayos</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">compilada por</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Mílada Bazant</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Prólogo de Enrique Krauze</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a delight and an honor to be able to attend Mílada Bazant's book presentation yesterday evening at the <a href="http://www.ferialibromineria.mx/xxxvfilpm/">Fería Internacional del Libro in Mexico City's Palacio de Minería</a>. The book, with a splendid prologue by Mexico's leading biographer, Enrique Krauze, is <i style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><a href="http://www2.cmq.edu.mx/libreria/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id=551&virtuemart_category_id=5">Biografía. Métodos, metodologías y enfoques</a></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">El Colegio Mexiquense, 2013. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">Other contributors include Mary Kay Vaughn, Carlos Herrejón Paredo, Daniela Spenser, Rodrigo Terrazas Valdez, Esther Acevedo, Francie Chassen-López, María Teresa Fernández Aceves, Ma. de Lourdes Alvarado, María del Carmen Collado, Susana Quintanilla, Ana Rosa Suárez Arguello, Celia del Palacio, and <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/">Yours Truly</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">(Bazant is the author of a fine biography,<i> </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><i><a href="http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=260830">Laura Méndez de Cuenca. Mujer indómita y moderna (1853-1928). Vida cotidiana y entorno.</a></i> El Colegio Mexiquense. Gobierno del Estado de México; México, 2009.)</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Fería Internacional del Libro, <br />Palacio de Minería, <br />Ciudad de México, 2014</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can read my essay, which is about the nature of the literary novel <i>per se,</i> and blending the fiction and nonfiction in my own novel, <i>The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire</i>, <a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/espanol-BIOGRAFIA-Milada-Bazant-Agust%EDn-de-Iturbide-y-Green.html">here</a>. (The essay is in Spanish and refers to Agustín Cadena's Spanish translation of the novel, <i><a href="http://www.cmmayo.com/espanol-el-ultimo-principe-del-imperio-mexicano.html">El último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano.</a></i>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can order a copy of Bazant's <i>Biografía</i> <a href="http://www2.cmq.edu.mx/libreria/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id=551&virtuemart_category_id=5">here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ISBN 978-607-7761-52-5</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">P.S. Please be sure to see the previous post about <a href="http://maximilian-carlota.blogspot.mx/2014/02/conference-about-maximilian-in-mexico.html">the excellent conference running this winter and spring 2014 about Maximilian in Mexico at the Centro CARSO in Mexico City. </a></span><br />
<br />C.M. Mayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652658684711290919noreply@blogger.com