La información en Madrid del terremoto de Lisboa de 1755
- Ordaz Gargallo, Jorge (coord.)
ISSN: 1576-7914
Year of publication: 2005
Issue Title: El terremoto de Lisboeta de 1755
Issue: 6
Pages: 173-186
Type: Article
More publications in: Cuadernos Dieciochistas
Abstract
The Lisbon earthquake of November 1st 1755 was bought to the attention of Madrid by an edition of "relaciones", a collection of articles on the subject from the areas affected, namely Lisbon and the southern Iberian peninsula. These pieces were practically the only source of information available to the man in the street. The more learned members of society, however, had three periodical publications (none daily) at their disposal, the Gaceta de Madrid, the Mercurio Histórico y Político and the Discursos Mercuriales Políticos y Económicos. Of these three printed periodicals only the latter did not receive monarchic protection. The Gaceta in fact hardly mentions the disaster at all. Only the Mercurio took the subject seriously by introducing a new section called "News from Portugal"