The ceremonial ceremony of the solemn investiture ceremony as Doctor Honoris Causa of His Excellency had concluded in the Auditorium of the University of Alcalá. Mr. Don Santiago Muñoz Machado and in the patio of the philosophers a Spanish wine was offered. Some passages from the acceptance speech entitled Fortuna and the founders. The new doctor had focused on three: Cisneros, who founded it in 1499; Nebrija, a professor of the highest prestige on whom he built a considerable fortune fairly earned with his work; and Sepúlveda, who was considered one of the most gifted students. The clarifications provided in his lesson by Muñoz Machado had allowed us to return to the 16th and 17th centuries. and set us in the glorious era of the university that was receiving him with all honorsafter having had him on its faculty for years, starting with its reinvention in 1977 when the rectorate was located in the control tower of the old airfield at the service of the Parachute Brigade, an elite military unit that forms before the main façade to honor the king when he goes to Alcalá on April 23 to present the Cervantes prize.
Now that it is fashionable to deny that any hint of the so-called civil society exists in Spain, it must be recognized that those who attended the investiture last Tuesday of the director of the Royal Spanish Academy could not have any doubts about it. Above all, because in his acceptance speech Muñoz Machado gave a luminous example regarding what happened after the first sales ordered by the confiscation laws began, when the buildings of the complex called ‘Cisnerian block’ changed their use to be dedicated to the most heterogeneous activities, while they were looted and projects were even considered to dismantle the façade and affect it to other constructions. Arriving here, Muñoz Machado points out, the town of Alcala de Henares He reacted determined to protect his heritage and created a “society of co-owners” in 1850. who bought the block that contained the main buildings of the university for 90,000 reais. According to their constitutions, the shares could only be transferred to residents of the city and in addition the preamble declared the absence of any profit motive, without determining any purpose other than to preserve the buildings until the University was reopened. of Alcalá.
The guests exchanged impressions while the Spanish wine and its accompaniments were served. Then one of them, Pablo Mansilla, when the conversation began to decline towards the latest cases of corruption that have been surfacing, He remembered some verses from the Cid’s romance that deal with exile and how he obtains 600 marks from two Jewish moneylenders whom he deceives by giving them as collateral two closed chests that, instead of the supposed silver, are full of sand. That’s when romance cries out:
Oh infamous necessity
to how many honest forces
why leave you
do a thousand things wrong!
Koldo himself at the La Chalana seafood restaurant He couldn’t have excused himself better. Okay
