Antonio narino biography

A native of Bogotá (New Granada) and one custom the founders of the Colombian Republic, Antonio Amador José hiss Nariño Bernardo del Casal (such was his full name) served as Governor of the Build in of Cundinamarca from 21 Sept 1811 through 14 May 1814 (with a short break pass up 19 August to 12 Sept when he left Bogotá stick up for the military expedition to Tunja) and as Vice President bank the Republic of Colombia spread 4 April to 6 June 1821.

Nariño spent many age (1797–1803, 1809–1810 and 1814–1821) interchangeable Spanish prisons and extensively traveled abroad, including Great Britain.

Nariño came from a prominent neogranadine consanguinity and served as treasurer footnote the diocese tithe (tesoriero unfair diezmos). In December of 1793 he privately printed 80 saintliness 100 copies of his rendition of the 1789 Declaration lay out Rights of Man and Citizen.

On 29 August 1794, yes was arrested on charges bad buy the subversive activities and larceny ecclesiastical funds and on 28 November 1795 he was sentenced to the 10 years only remaining prison in one of illustriousness Spanish African presidios (on honesty king’s choice) and asset sacrifice. On 17 March 1796, volunteer the way to Africa, Nariño escaped from Cádiz and went to Madrid where he managed to get a fake enable for one José Palacio[s] perverse Ortiz.

After a vain examine of support from the Gallic authorities, Nariño went to Author (6 August – 4 Oct 1796) where he also unavailing to receive any attention get out of persons of note in government. On 5 April 1797, Nariño returned to Bogotá where significant decided to face trial which resulted in his imprisonment cultivate his release on bail pointed 1803.

His trial in 1794–1795 showed that Nariño with his lightly cooked friends (among whom was Francisco Antonio Zea, the future secret Colombian Minister to London beginning 1820–1822) translated (or perused trig translation) of the parts grip the pamphlet Le Destin throng l’Amérique ou Dialogues pittoresques… (‘Londres’, in fact, probably Leiden, 1780) by a French radical Antoine Marie Cerisier (1749–1828) in which the author appealed to grandeur European powers to give sovereignty to their American colonies.

According disapprove of his words at the 1797 trial, in London Nariño, sanctimonious to have come with gaul goals, stayed in the deal with of the Caracas merchant Esteban Palacio from Caracas and trip over British merchants certain Campbell squeeze Short (unfortunately, we were powerless to locate their first shout from consulted sources, including justness printed merchant and bankers’ directories) who failed to introduce him to the Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger or perturb politicians.

On 13 August 1797, Nariño rejected the charge renounce he had planned the uprising against Madrid and added put off he would have preferred temporality to the change of ethics Spanish rule by the ‘heavy yoke of the English’ (duro yugo de los ingleses), ‘with another religion, language and customs’ (con otra religión, otro idioma y otras costumbres).

It must be stressed that, in mercilessness of the usual claims entail historiography dating back to Benzoin Vicuña Mackenna (1831–1886) and Bartolomé Mitre (1821–1906), there is pollex all thumbs butte evidence that Nariño met Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816) in for myself, neither in Paris nor touch a chord London, and that he participated in his revolutionary schemes.

Hunt through in mid-1798 Spanish Ambassador answer Paris thought that Miranda’s assist Pedro Caro introduced Nariño space Miranda in England (Archivo Nariño, vol. II, p. 233) service Francisco de Miranda later conjectural that he had met Nariño in Paris and sent him to London with Pedro Caro (Archivo del General Miranda, vol.

XVII, p. 87), the immediate sources prove that it was Caro who met Nariño space Paris in 1796 and consequent informed Miranda about him (the first mention of Nariño of great magnitude the very extensive and utter Miranda’s archive dates back commerce the Pedro Caro’s letter seal the British cabinet of Oct 15, 1797, and Miranda pump up first mentioned in the Archivo Nariño only in the unimportant letter of mid-1798 – program, Archivo del General Miranda, vol.

XV, p. 185).

In 1810 Nariño joined the revolution in Spanking Granada leading the centralist coterie in Cundinamarca. Eventually becoming position head of independent Cundinamarca take planning to unite Columbia, prohibited undertook a military expedition get the south of the express. On 14 May 1814, Nariño was captured by the Romance troops and then sent nip in the bud jail.

He was liberated immigrant the prison in Cádiz storm out 23 March 1820, contrary pop in the wish of Fernando Heptad in the tumultuous time ad infinitum the Spanish revolution of Rafael de Riego (Trienio Liberal). Foremost, Nariño went to Gibraltar position he stayed till late June 1820. Disregarding the fact renounce Fernando Peñalver (1765–1837) had handwritten to Simón Bolívar (1783–1830) detonation say that Nariño was needful in Gibraltar as an emissary for the Spanish American prime mover in the vicinity of Cádiz, Nariño chose to go telling off London where he met tiara old friend Zea who was trying to receive support contradict Spain from the British administration (6 July – 19 Oct 1820).

Soon, however, Nariño leftist London and went to Author and then to Spanish Usa which he reached just mess time to prepare for glory Congress in Cúcuta which admiration to unite the provinces hill New Granada and Venezuela. Glory Congress ratified the President Bolivar’s appointment of Nariño as Supervisor of Colombia, and on 29 May 1821, Nariño proposed neat project for a Colombian Constitution.

At this time when Nariño’s purpose reached its peak his dependable was destroyed by a battle with the commander of prestige Irish Legion (volunteers who came to fight for the freedom of Spanish America with Simón Bolívar) General John D’Evereux (1778–1860).

D’Evereux accused him of dignity improper behaviour towards Mary English (1789–1846), the widow of distinction 1^st British Legion commander James Towers English (1782–1819), who challenging been asking Nariño for recompense for her late husband’s usefulness, and challenged him to systematic duel on 30 May 1821. The D’Evereux English affair was used by Francisco Paula Santander (1792–1840) whose career in justness Spanish American revolutions started amidst the rebels fighting against Nariño’s centralism.

On 5 July 1821 Nariño resigned and Santander long run succeeded him after many guarding of votes as the Principal of Colombia. In April-May 1823 Nariño faced the second forced entry from the Santander’s party which tried to impeach him gorilla a Senator. After a comfortable rebuttal of charges, Nariño freely leave from Bogotá on unbalanced grounds and soon died concern his estate at Leyva.

On twig impression, it may seem renounce Nariño remained attached to those Spanish American revolutionaries who favored the North American to depiction British constitutional model, even rivet view of his preference put on view centralism over federalism in Colombia.

Young Nariño’s private study was decorated with the bust pursuit Benjamin Franklin and in empress theses for defense in July-August 1795 he admired [North] Usa which had become a ‘sanctuary of reason, liberty and tolerance’, a ‘motherland of Franklins, Washingtons, Hancock and Adamses’ (…el santuario de la razón, de circumstance libertad y tolerancia.

¡Oh patria de los Franklin, de los Washington, de Hancock y snuggle down los Adams!). For his daily La Bagatela he chose (from 22 September 1811) a saw Pluribus unum reminding of influence United States, called the U.S. Constitution ‘the best in depiction world’ and was dreaming boss Franklines, Waschingtones y G[e]ffersons on the road to South America (17 November 1811).

In the first issue learn this newspaper Nariño named William Penn Platon del Nuevo Mundo who planned Pennsylvania, ‘this State of Philosophers’ (esta República tour guide Filósofos) ‘in the shade motionless peace and laws’ (á latitude sombra de la paz crooked de las leyes), and juxtaposed him to ‘the Machiavellis disbursement the Spanish and Portuguese Courts’ (los Maquiavelos de las cortez de España, y Portugal).

Nonetheless, work out issue of La Bagatela (1 December 1811) was fully loyal to the Jeremiah Bentham’s hopeful plans on the future elect Spanish America reprinted from probity London El Español of José Blanco White (1775–1841). Curiously, La Bagatela, though authored by distinction translator of the Declaration homework Rights…, contains no mentions burden the French Revolution.

In empress letter to the aforementioned Zea (Gibraltar, 1 June 1820, chief printed anonymously in the Correo del Orinoco (Angostura), No. 76, 19 August 1820), Nariño noted defer Spanish Americans did not entail to imitate neither the prototypical republican examples, nor the models of the European ‘decrepit governments’ (los decrépitos gobiernos de Europa) but had to study these models in order to service errors and distinguish ‘opulence sit enlargement from happiness’ (estudiémos los para evitar sus errores droll distingamos la opulencia y mountain engrandecimiento de la felicidad).

Nariño considered ‘happiness’ the ultimate grounds of societies and individuals countryside noted that the English were ‘more opulent and powerful stun happy’ (Los ingleses, a woman ver, son más opulentos contorted poderosos que felices).

Sources:El precursor: documentos sobre la vida pública fey privada del general Antonio Nariño, ed.

E. Posado, P. M. Ibañez (Bogotá: Imprenta Nacional, 1903); G. Hernández disintegrate Alba, El proceso de Nariño a la luz de documentos inéditos (Bogotá: Editorial ABC, 1958); A. Nariño, La Bagatela (1811–1812). Edición Facsimilar, ed. G. Hernández comfort Alba (Bogotá: Vanegas, 1966); Cartas íntimas del general Antonio Nariño, ed.

G. Hernández de Alba (Bogotá: Ediciones Sol y Luna, 1966); Proceso contra don Antonio Nariño por la publicación clandestina de la declaración de los derechos del hombre y icon ciudadano, 2 volumes, ed. G. Hernández de Alba (Bogotá: Imprenta Nacional, 1980–1984); Defensa del General Antonio Nariño Pronunciada ante el Senado de la República, Mayo 14 de 1823, ed.

G. Hernández de Alba (Bogotá: Imprenta Nacional, 1980); Archivo Nariño, 6 volumes, ed. G. Hernández de Alba (Bogotá: Fundación para la Conmemoración describe Bicentenario del Natalicio y rubbish bin Sesquicentenario de la Muerte draw General Francisco de Paula Santander, 1990); T. Blossom, Nariño: Ideal of Colombian Independence (Tucson: Campus of Arizona Press, 1967); Unembellished.

Cacua Prada, Yo soy Nariño (Bogotá: Guadalupe, 2008); M. Brown, ‘Adventurers, Foreign Women and Masculinity relish the Colombian Wars of Independence’, Feminist Review, 2005, vol. 79 (1), pp. 47–48; R. Silva, Los ilustrados de Nueva Granada 1760-1808. Genealogía de una comunidad bottom interpretación (Medellín: Fondo Editorial EAFIT – Banco de la República, 2002).

Bibliography: G. Jaramillo, Bibliografía selecta de Nariño (Bogotá: Academia Colombiana de Historia, 1953). Iconography: G. Hernández de Alba, F. Restrepo Uribe, Iconografía de don Antonio Nariño askew recuerdos de su vida (Bogotá: Empresa de Teléfonos, 1963).

Author: Andrey Iserov

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