Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Camaguey, Dec 14. - The opening day of the event Leer la Historia brought the presentation of four of the books that make up the Esencias Collection of the Editorial Seal El Lugareño.
The House of Diversity brought together prestigious historians and intellectuals of the territory to bring the public closer to a sample that is a faithful example of the editorial's commitment to the preservation of literary heritage.
Camagüey’s historian Bárbara Oliva García opened the presentation with the text History of Port Príncipe, by Tomás Pío Betancourt, at which point she highlighted the importance of the work for historical studies.
In addition, the editor of the prologue of the edition, highlighted the correctness of the seal to reissue the work since in previous years it was difficult to access the material, as well as the author's successes and limitations when composing it, considered this the first historian of Camaguey.
Fernando Crespo Baró, researcher at the Subdirectorate of Investigations of the Office of the City Historian, addressed the characteristics and content of the book Collection of historical, geographical and statistical data from Puerto Príncipe and its jurisdiction, by Juan Torres Lasqueti.
He stressed the expertise of this Havana-born who excelled for his performance on the mainland, formed as a historian empirically and that in this text presents a collection of information of facts that occurred in the once first of the first of the first of the princely villa.
Notes by Camaguey, by Jorge Juárez Cano, also had his moment in the words of Yisell Pérez Peña, editor of the El Lugareño Seal, who described the book as an indispensable source for the current researchers for how comprehensive the data collected by who was also in his time Historian of the City.
The closing of this presentation of books of the Esencias Collection focused on the daily Scenes, by Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros, El Lugareño, from the intervention of the professor of the University of the Arts, María Antonia Borroto Trujillo.
As a prologuist of this work that brings together writings published in the Gazette of Port-au-Prince during the first half of the 19th century, stands out the mastery that El Lugareño printed in its lyrics and the freshness that they still preserve.
In addition, Borroto Trujillo conceives the prologue of the work as an analysis to understand the communicative function of the daily scenes, as a channel to promulgate the vision of social and economic progress that characterized its author.
During the Leer la Historia day the Editorial Seal El Lugareño will feature other presentations of its materials, dedicated to the Senderos magazine and digital books. (Text and photos: Daylén Fenollar Alemán/Radio Camagüey)
