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Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Cossío, Francisco de (1887-1975)Other forms

Fechas de existencia:

Sepúlveda (Segovia, España) 1887-05-12 - Segovia (España) 1975

History:

Spanish writer, journalist, and lawyer.

Son of Mariano de Cossío Cuesta and Carmen Martínez-Fortún Martínez-Talavera. Brother of the painter Mariano de Cossío and the bullfighting critic José María de Cossío, creator of the Tratado Técnico e Histórico Los Toros, known as El Cossío. Nephew of Manuel Bartolomé de Cossío.

He married Mercedes Corral García Mesanza and was the father of the law professor Alfonso de Cossío Corral and the writer Francisco de Cossío Corral.

He completed his early studies at the Colegio San José in Valladolid and followed the law degree at the university in the Castilian capital without much enthusiasm. He soon turned to literary activity, writing a small play and then the novel La Casa de los Linajes.

He was a member of the Academias de Bellas Artes de La Purísima Concepción in Valladolid and of the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

Between 1919 and 1959, he directed the Museo de Escultura in Valladolid, except during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera when he was suspended from his position and confined to the Chafarinas Islands. Throughout this period, he recovered a significant part of the historical processional heritage of Valladolid that had been scattered after the disamortization processes of the 19th century. A great connoisseur of art, his speech on Berruguete during his appointment as an academic of San Fernando stands out.

In the 1930s and 1940s, as a journalist, he was the director of Norte de Castilla, and later the deputy director of the ABC newspaper in Madrid and a contributor to Diario Madrid. A prolific author, among his works are the novels Auror a y los hombre s and Manolo, a tribute to his youngest son, who died in combat during the Spanish Civil War. Shortly before his death, he left us Confesiones, an unfinished chronicle of Spain in his time.

Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Date of the event: 1936 - 1939