Baltasar Graci á n y Morales
 

The Graciano year begins. 



The Program



Belmonte de Gracián. 



Works. 



Its trajectory. 



Graciana Caracteología. 



Aphorisms



Gracián and the psychoanalysis. 



Connections and link's. 
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2001, BEGINS YEAR GRACIANO. 
8 of January of 1601, Are born in Belmonte, Balthasar Gracián Morales. 
     Gracián is considered like the main and more influential writer of century XVII. As well as the more universal Aragonese author.  

     Aragón beginning the 8 of January commemorative acts in honor to Balthasar gracián with a solemn act in the church of Belmonte, where they attended the main autonomicas authorities.  
The Aragonese president, Marcelino Churches, that to I finish of the ceremony assured that he had read " some things " of the writer. And general with a phrase summarized feeling: " Today, after 4 centuries, we can well state that Gracián was able to be the more universal Aragonese writer and one of classic the more outstanding of Spanish Literature.  
     Belmonte welcomed with great east enthusiasm act, shows of it was the total plenty of the church, near the seat " Balthasar Gracián " where is the native house of the same one, a board of the institution Fernando the Catholic and another one of the Athenian de Zaragoza give sample of it in their facade. The city council has thought to buy it with the support of the institutions, today is deprived property, and leaves from " Small farm loan bank of the Tug ", to construct in her a dedicated museum to the work of Gracián.  
     The comisaria of the acts of the fourth centenary, Aurora Egido, I make a total speech of cultured references and trim in good part in the Epifanía and in I throw of which Gracián probably was born the 6 of January of 1601, I affirm that Gracián, " Left the ordinary, reaching the excellence. And although I hoist everything by the fame almost, was in favor of silence. It measured the greatness by the virtue, and not by the fortune ". Placa Institución Fernando el Católico 
     The historian Miguel Batllorí, student of Gracián, that also went to the act, I emphasize that " Gracián, like Aragón, has a bridge character, as much in the chronological aspect as in the geographic one. Tube a clear vocation by the university and presented a thought until then stranger ".  

     Javier Lambán, president of the delegation of Zaragoza, president of the Provincial Delegation of Zaragoza, institution that by means of the IFC collaborated actively in the commemoration of the Graciano Year, I assure that Gracián " was a sagacious estructurador of the human, paradigm of the Aragonese intellectual. He was one of the most outstanding personages of the century of Spanish Gold, one felt like Aragonese and aragonesista ".  
 
     Hill the act Marcelino Churches for that gracián " extended the space and the time in which it lived, writing a work that would turn it into classic universal. She is an author who does not admit passive readers, but laborious, who put all their will in unravelling whatever has behind their words ".  

     After the Hymn of Aragón, I declare myself officially inaugurated the Graciano year.  

     Therefore Balthasar Gracián and Morales,   Spanish didactic work author, who forms with Francisco de Quevedo the most outstanding pair of the great prosistas of the baroque conceptismo. He was born in Belmonte de Gracián (Zaragoza), where still the familiar house and the baptismal battery are conserved (church of century XVII) where was baptized. He studied in Toledo and he made the votes like jesuita in 1635. He taught in schools of Calatayud, Zaragoza and Tarragona and enjoyed fame like preacher in Madrid. He underwent admonition of his superior ones to publish without license on worldly subjects, and he prohibited himself him to do it. The third volume of criticón (1655) insisted on its revolt when publishing, reason why they kidnapped the papers to him and it prohibited itself him to write of taxativo way. Hurt, he requested license to happen to another order, but however they trusted important positions to him the school of Tarazona (Zaragoza) where died. 

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