Fernando Vives Escudero, el senyor de Sant Patrici i la causa roja
By: Josep Portella Coll
Series: Col.lecció Petit format -- 37; Col.lecció Petit format. Série Biografia
Publisher: Institut Menorquí d'Estudis, Ajuntament de Ferreries
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Menorca
Language: cat
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9788415291510
Subjects: Social history; Biography; Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) fast (OCoLC)fst01352321
Description: "Fernando, the brother of the illustrious Mahon Antoni Vives Escudero, is an unknown character in our contemporary history. His trajectory, with a sad and dramatic end, can also be, however, that of many anonymous characters of his time, embodying the end of a slightly illustrated bourgeoisie, who insults with the advanced ideas of entresecles. As much by the maternal line as by the father, it descends from important maoneses families, tie to lineages of the ruling class of end of century XIX. Young rich, adventurous, cosmopolitan, gallant and player, pretentious and in love, must leave Madrid to retire to Ferreries, where he collides with that rural and catholic world, dominated by the small local chieftains, who took advantage of the result of the Civil War to take revenge on his morale, his wealth, his daring, his desertion of class. A revenge that also directed on his lover Virginia Lopez"--Front cover flap
Notes: Includes bibliographical references

"Premi d'investigació sobre Ferreries, bienni 2014-2015"