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February 20, 2025
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On Thursday, February 20, at 7:00 p.m., at the Segovia Public Library, the Segovia City Council and the Castilian-Leonese Institute of Language are organizing the conference The End of the Spanish Empire in the Pacific (1896-1898), given by the Madrid-born philologist and writer José Enrique Gil-Delgado, a teacher specialized in language teaching and author of novels, plays, poetry and other types of stories.

In his presentation, Gil-Delgado will Segovia on the political changes that took place in Spain during the last third of the 19th century, which generated instability not only in the Iberian Peninsula, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, but also in the so-called Spanish overseas provinces: Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, the Island of Guam, the Marianas and the Carolinas. In his presentation, which focuses on the period (1875 to 1900) in the Spanish provinces of the Pacific, he will give special attention to the Philippine Islands, originally called the Archipelago of San Lázaro by Magellan and his crew, when they arrived in the area looking for the Spice Islands.

The author will discuss its history, geography, political and religious organization, gastronomy, languages, the presence of Spanish in the administration, philately and numismatics, the first secessionist movements (the Katipunan) and the three important military historical milestones that concluded with the Treaty of Paris (December 10, 1898): the siege of Novaliches, the siege of Báler and the battle of Cavite, which led to the takeover of the Philippine archipelago by the United States on May 1, 1898. He will mention a geographical and political curiosity related to the small archipelagos in the Pacific that, because they were not mentioned in the Treaty of Paris, in theory, as of today, would belong to Spain.

José Enrique Gil-Delgado Crespo (Madrid, 1944) has dedicated a good part of his professional career to studying the influence that the work of Miguel de Cervantes and Francisco de Quevedo had on William Shakespeare. Some of his latest novels, Love in the Time of Coronavirus (2021); Shakespeare and His Lost Work (2020); have been translated into English. He is also the author of the novels ... And Magellan Found the Strait (2019); Don Quixote Inspired Shakespeare (2017) and Shakespeare Read Don Quixote (2016). In addition, he is a member of the Television Academy.

Event website : https://www.ilcyl.com/

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  • Postal address Biblioteca Pública de Segovia - C/ Los Procuradores de la Tierra, 6. municipality of Segovia . NaN. Segovia