page_title: Manuel Polo y Peyrolón
section_title: Family and youth
hierarchical_section_title: Manuel Polo y Peyrolón / Family and youth
caption_attribution_description: Vega del rio Tajo desde el Puerto el Portillo (1790 m), en el término de Guadalaviar. Se encuentra dentro de los Montes Universales, entre la Sierra de Albarracin y la Serranía de Cuenca.
context_page_description: Manuel Polo y Peyrolón was a Spanish writer, theorist, academic, and politician. He is best known as the author of 5 novels falling in-between Romanticism and Realism; classified as part of costumbrismo, they are currently considered second-rate literature. As a philosopher he stuck to neo-Thomism and focused mostly on confronting Krausism. In education he represented the Catholic regenarationism, fiercely pitted against the Liberal current. In politics he was active within Carlism; his career climaxed during the 1896-1898 term in the Congress of Deputies and during the 1907-1915 terms in the Senate.
context_section_description: Manuel Polo y Peyrolón was born in Cañete, a village on the Western slopes of Montes Universales, a southern ridge of Sistema Ibérico. Located in the Castillan Province of Cuenca, the area bordered the regions of Aragón and Valencia and formed part of what was once known as Alto Maestrazgo. He was descendant to a petty bourgeoisie family. His father, Domingo Polo y Polo (died 1859), originated from the Aragonese city of Belchite; during the First Carlist War he sided with the legitimists and served as a secretary of general José María Arévalo y Requeno. Following the Carlist defeat he had to abandon his job and settled in Cañete, practicing as a lawyer. According to his son he was later among founders of the Carlist daily La Esperanza. Manuel's mother, María Peyrolón Lapuerta, was also an Aragonese from Calomarde. The couple had at least two sons, Manuel and Florentino. María Peyrolón died during another childbirth in 1853. It seems that some time in mid-1850s Domingo Polo developed very serious health problems and pledged that in case of recovery, he would dedicate his life to God; indeed he later entered an uspecified religious order and became a friar.
  Since the mid-1850s Manuel and his younger brother were looked after by their maternal aunt Concepción. Spending most of his childhood and youth with relatives in Gea de Albarracín, he considered himself a turolense and viewed Sierra de Albarracín as his "patria chica". He was brought up in a fervently Catholic ambience and inherited the Traditionalist political outlook from his father; his first childhood lectures were Carlist booklets and periodicals. Following early education in Albarracin, he frequented Instituto in Valencia; exact dates are unclear, though most likely his college days fell on the early 1860s. According to one source he majored in filosofia y letras from Universidad Central in Madrid and in derecho civil y canonico from Universidad de Valencia. Guided by Miguel Vicente Almazán, Manuel would later gain PhD laurels in philosophy. According to another author, he studied both law and letters in Valencia; none of the sources consulted provides date of his graduation. Following a brief and temporary episode as professor auxiliar of metafisica in Valencia in 1868-69, he returned to Aragón and successfully applied to Instituto de Segunda Enseñanza de Teruel, where he commenced teaching Psicología, Lógica y Ética in 1870. Manuel Polo y Peyrolón has never married and had no children.
caption: Alto Maestrazgo
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