FRANCISCO DE MONCADA 1586-1635

 

Published in Barcelona in 1623 by the great Catalan writer (he writes in Spanish) The Expedition of Catalans against the Greeks and Turks, the work has a certain historical relevance in view of things in the East. We harbor no hostility against Turkey, an admirable country that played an antagonistic or counterpart role towards the Spanish empire but which we admire, nor against Greek Orthodoxy. Moncada writes of a time of crusading wars and conflicts when, according to some historians, even the fish of the Mediterranean carried the bars of Aragon on their scales. It is a story of the famous Almogávar soldiers of fortune who specialized in the fight against Islam and devastated wherever they went, they arrived in Jerusalem but were badly hurt due to internal dissensions, Moncada was an Aragonese with a sharp pen, a specialist in the relations of Spain with the Netherlands that tried by all means to avert the conspiracy of Catalonia that occurred shortly before his death in 1635. The kings of Aragon and consequently the crown of Castile ruled Sicily and part of southern Italy. This notion is important but always in Castile, the speech of the Catalans, who were always considered Spanish, was respected. The bars of Aragón temple of freedom are and both mounts mounts both Isabel and Fernando. The Catalan irredentism promoted by the Zionists who support the secession of Catalonia in the same way that they do not know what to do to prevent the Jew Zelensky from losing the war with Russia will not be able to resist these Catalan bars (the Almogavars were part of the best European infantry when they plunged the spear they said wake up iron) and Baltasar Gracias already said it: "For free Aragón" with this encouragement and desire for freedom of justice let us remember today this distinguished writer one of the best ambassadors of Felipe IV friend of Van Dyck who portrayed him in several of his paintings. And we send our condolences to the Turkish president for those terrible earthquake disasters that nature gives from time to time and are far from God's punishment. This is a time of pain and reflection. Moncada makes a portrait of the time that touched him with a pen worthy of Salutio and Tito Livio, something that is missing in the troubled chronicles that today's reporters write today.