Cayetano María Huarte Ruiz de Briviesca was a Spanish writer and poet. He was born in Cádiz in 1741 and died in 1806. [1]
Son of perpetual alderman Juan Antonio de Huarte and brother of Francisco de Huarte, one of the contributors to the foundation of the Academy of Fine Arts of Cádiz, Cayetano was born in 1741. After receiving a doctorate in Theology from the University of Osuna he joined a cathedral chapter in 1773. He was subsequently named director of the College of Santa Cruz, which was founded with the aim of serving as the talent pool for the cathedral choir.
He visited the town of Vejer de la Frontera after evidence appeared suggesting that Saint Cervantes and Saint Germain passed through the town on their way to Tangier to receive martyrs' palms. He was a member of the governing board at the Cádiz Hospice where he became the spiritual director. He insisted that the dowries granted by the patronages of pious works administered by the chapter benefited the poor. In 1786 he called for his fellow chapter clerics to assist in buying quinine to treat yellow fever. His efforts ensured that the prebendaries increased the finance allocated to the hospice.
Named canon penitentiary in 1788, his precarious health required him to spend many years residing in the town of Lanjaron in the Province of Granada so that he could benefit from the local spring water. By 1797 his activities had returned to their previous rhythm, with the chapter entrusting him with important missions. He went to Seville to present the accounts of the patronages of pious works to the Audiencia Provincial and led the protests of the prebendaries during the Spanish confiscation in 1798. He then organised a series of pastoral visits for the dioceses, the reports of which are first hand sources, giving us an insight into spiritual life at the end of the 18th century. It appears that he died suddenly, leaving no will, in 1806.
According to Ravina Marín, [2] Huarte belonged to a group of erudite figures from Cádiz, which included his brother Francisco, Antonio Mosti, Rafael de Antúnez, Gaspar de Molina y Zaldívar, the marquis of Ureña and the marquis of Méritos. Cayetano must have been on good terms with them since he presided over the marriage of Antúnez and delivered the sermon during the ceremony in which one of Mosti's daughters became a nun. He was not the only ecclesiastic from Cádiz to share in these ideals, notable among them were ecclesiastical colleague Antonio Trianes and magisterial colleague Antonio Cabrera, though both would concentrate on their own endeavours during the first part of the 19th century.
The majority of Huarte's works remain unpublished to this day, they consist of three main bodies:
It is very possible that Huarte was influenced by the Literary School of Salamanca as in some poems he uses the alias “Delio” which was used and originally created by Fray Diego González. In addition he writes using anacreontic verses, a style which was favoured by Meléndez Valdés, as well as the use of themes distinctive to Quintana poetry, such as those seen in Sueño de Delio a Albana [Delio's Dream for Albana]. It would also be interesting to establish the possible (or certain) connections between Huarte and the members of the Sevillian Literary School, such as Arjona, Manuel María del Mármol, Reinoso, Blanco White or Lista, but there is no documentation to prove it. Huarte's clerical status was by no means exceptional in late 18th century Spanish poetry: Fray Diego González, from the Literary School of Salamanca and many of the leading representatives from the School of Seville were also ecclesiastical.
A recurring theme in Huarte's poetry is his love for his small hometown Cadiz, as can be seen in the verses of his work Llanto de Delio por su patria Cádiz [Delio's lament for his homeland Cadiz], written after the British Royal Navy attacked the city in 1797. One can also readily appreciate Huarte's various philanthropic concerns such as those in Sueño de Delio y Albana [Delio's Dream for Albana], where the anti-slavery sentiments that began to penetrate Spain towards the end of the 18th century are echoed, condemning the atrocities practiced by various European nations towards the African people; and Fábula dicha por una niña del Hospicio [Fable told by a Girl from the Orphanage] in which he urges the orphanage's board of directors to continue with their care efforts. A social and moral criticism is also very present in his second satirical work: Contra las diversiones en las corridas de toros [Against the Spectacle of Bullfighting].
It is interesting to note the position of the canon with regard to the war against the French National Convention (1793–1795) as in contrast to the rest of the country who enthusiastically welcomed the conflict of a new war on religion, Huarte continually expressed his rejection of these attitudes. In Silvano a su hijo que iba voluntario de campaña, [Silvano to his Son who Voluntarily went to the Campaign], a poem written in 1795, Huarte displayed his condemnation of the alleged “war on religion”, saying that it was fanaticism that “invented that voice, unknown in the purest age of Christianity”. He also condemned the war against France in his work Anacreóntica a Don Antero Benito Núñez [Anacreontic to Don Antero Benito Núñez], written a year prior.
Huarte's work does not lack criticism of the ecclesiastical establishment and its vices and small hardships, which surfaced in the hilarious satirical piece El familiar del Obispo [The Bishop's Relative], perhaps one his best poetic works. The bishop's fury over not achieving a longed-for canonry leads him to show off his alleged merits by charming the vicar's nieces, offering them promises of marriage that he never intended to keep, performing jobs without being fully prepared, faithfully serving the prelate whilst neglecting his intellectual training, as well as nepotism, ignorance and servility. According to these verses, these were all characteristics present in the Church during late 18th century.
Nevertheless, Huarte reserved his sharpest satirical remarks for ideas on probabilism, which led him to completely reject the Company and everything it entails, attributing to it a good part of the evils that afflicted the church. In his third satire Contra los errores en las doctrinas morales y devociones falsas y supersticiosas [Against Errors in Moral Doctrines and False and Superstitious Devotions] he mercilessly condemns the laxity of theologians and confessors as well as the anti-Augustinian opinions of some Jesuits, and the mental laziness of theologians in general. He returns to these issues in his fourth satire: A la obra del ex jesuita Bonola, Liga de la Teología Moderna con la Filosofía, en daño de la Religión de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo [To the work by ex-Jesuit Bonola, Union of Modern Theology with Philosophy, Damaging the Religion of Our Lord Jesus Christ].
Various features of this author's work allow him to be included in the Jansenist movement that spread through Spain in the last years of the 18th century. These include his biblical and patristic culture, his rejection of superstitions and legends without historical foundation, his critical spirit, rejection of probabilism and laxity, which he identifies as Jesuit doctrines, his moral rigorism, and his love for the primitive Church. His philosophy displays the vitality, the cultural openness and the desire for intellectual renewal of the best works in Cadiz at the time.
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