El último romántico de nuestra política. Fernando Soldevilla Ruiz y la imparcialidad del españolismo

Abstract

This article is an approximation to the trajectory of Fernando Soldevilla Ruiz (1854-1931) and to his españolista speech, that is to say, Spanish nationalist. He was a relatively prolific writer and respected journalist, with a long trajectory in newspapers of the relevance of El Imparcial or La Correspondencia de España. From humble origins was a prominent member of Spanish liberalism. He served as a civil governor and twice elected him deputy. In 1913, at the age of fifty-nine, he was appointed head of the Mercantile and Insurance Inspection, and held him until he retired in 1929. He was characterized by being a staunch defender of a politically centralized Spain and culturally uniformized. He was one of the main critics of catalanismo and Basque nationalism, which he identified as bizcaitarras, especially from El Año político, political yearbook published in Spain, in the first decades of the twentieth century.