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Alfredo Vicenti Rey (Santiago de Compostela, November 20, 1850-Madrid, September 30, 1916) was a Spanish journalist, writer and politician, director of the newspaper El liberal.
Biography
He studied Medicine and Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santiago de Compostela, careers in which he never practiced, since he soon dedicated himself to journalism and politics. In 1875 he began to write the text of A orillas del Ulla in Santiago, which together with other writings and poems he published in the Orense newspaper El Heraldo Gallego directed by the friend of he Valentin Lamas Carvajal. He was already editor-in-chief of the Diario de Santiago when the cantonal uprising in Ferrol took place in 1872. In 1878 he was already the director of this newspaper, whose header was later replaced by that of Gaceta de Galicia . Cardinal Payá y Rico excommunicated him that same year and in 1880 he went to Madrid.
In Madrid, he replaced Manuel Murguía in the direction of The Galician and Asturian Illustration by Alejandro Chao (1880-1882); he was also an important piece in the progression of El Globo, the great newspaper of Emilio Castelar (1880-1895). He was still directing it, when he managed to convene representatives of more than twenty newspapers and six agencies of different political tendencies to create the Madrid Press Association (February 15, 1895). He ceded the presidency to Miguel Moya and, dissatisfied with Castelar's political drift, he left El Globo and thanks to Moya he became editor-in-chief of El Liberal (1896-1916). In 1910 he participated in agrarian rallies in Galicia and became a republican-agrarian candidate for Cortes for Becerreá (Lugo). From 1907 he directed El Liberal until he died in 1916.
His ideology was that of the Democratic Party and he supported a republican and federal ideology, in favor of Galician autonomy, Ibero-Americanist, Anglophile and Lusitanian. Anticlerical, he defended the freedom of religion. He was a friend of Galdós, Valle Inclán, Castelao, Enrique Gómez Carrillo and Mariano Miguel de Val, director of the magazine Ateneo of the Ateneo de Madrid, in which he collaborated assiduously.
Married to Emília Díez de Tejada y Hurtado de Mendoza, he was the father of Eulalia Vicenti, a Spanish journalist and feminist, and great-great-grandfather of the baritone Jorge Chaminé. A ceremony chaired by Victoria Prego of the Madrid Press Association took place in October 2016 for the centenary of Vicenti's death.
Streets in La Coruña and Santiago de Compostela have been dedicated to him.
Work
He belonged to the so-called generation of 68 or Fonseca's generation along with the Muruais brothers and Rafael Villar.
He was famous for his biographical portraits and profiles, feature articles, and editorials. As a reporter, he covered chapters such as Alfonso XII's illness, the question of the Carolinas Islands, the presence of Protestantism, the Russian pre-revolution of 1905 or the murder of the Bishop of Madrid. He gave lectures at the Ateneo. He wrote a volume entitled Recuerdos, (1868-1875): collection of poetry (Orense: Estab. Tipográfico de la Propaganda Gallega, 1876), which had a second edition in 1878 and is prefaced by Manuel Murguía. He also published Lesser Gods: On the banks of the Ulla (Galician Profiles) (1875-1881) . His Speech delivered by Alfredo Vicenti in the Congress of Deputies on June 2 for the discussion of the budgets, (Madrid, 1887) was printed.
The Madrid Press Association, the Council of Galician Culture and the Provincial Council of Pontevedra have recovered the figure of Vicenti and many of his writings through the historian José Antonio Durán.