Cándido María Trigueros, censor

Abstract

This research systematizes for the first time the work carried out by the aca- demic and writer Cándido María Trigueros (1736-1798) as a book censor. For this purpose, it examines all the files of the works that have been preserved today, which were sent to him by the Vicariate of Madrid and the Spanish Royal Academy of History. From them, these pages rescue twenty-three reports, in great part unpublished, that the Toledo-born author wrote between 1792 and 1798, placed here in relation to the censorship context of the second half of the century and to what was in turn the last phase of his career. Thus, this study joins those developed recently on the role played by many men of letters in the context of eighteenth-century government censorship.