Miguel Mañara Vicentelo de Leca (3 March 1627 – 9 May 1679) was the main founder of the Hospital de la Caridad in Seville.
Life Family background Born in Seville, his family originated in Corsica. His father Tomás Mañara Leca y Colona had been born in Calvi.
Childhood
Youth
Wife's death
Mañara and the Hermandad de la Santa Caridad Beginnings and appointment as elder brother
The Hospital de la Caridad
Mañara's work
Death
A cause for Mañara's beatification was formally opened on 24 September 1754, granting him the title of Servant of God.
Reputation as a seducer
Appearances in literature In French literature Mañara was the subject of Prosper Merimée's novella Les Âmes du purgatoire (1834) and Alexandre Dumas's play Don Juan de Marana ou la chute d'un ange (1836). Théophile Gautier, Antoine de Latour, Antoine de Latour, Don Miguel Mañara. Sa vie, son Discours sur la Vérité, son testament, sa profession de foi, Paris, Michel Lévy, 1857, translated into Spanish by Charles Donniol, Don Miguel Mañara : su vida, su Discurso de la verdad, su testamento y profesión de fe, Sevilla, Enrique Bellido, 1862. Edmond Haraucourt Edmond Haraucourt, Don Juan de Mañara, five-act play in verse, with romance and scene-music by Paul Vidal, Paris, théâtre de l'Odéon, 8 March 1898 and Pierre-Paul Raoul Colonna de Cesari Rocca Pierre-Paul Raoul Colonna de Cesari Rocca, Un Corse de légende, Don Juan (Miguel Mañara), sa famille, sa légende, sa vie, republished by La Marge, Ajaccio, 2000 also wrote about him, while Maurice Barrès dedicated a chapter to him in Du sang de la volupté et de la mort (1900)See Francisco Martín Hernández, Miguel Mañara. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 1981, p. 10: https://books.google.es/books?id=RV30mzvdvgwC&dq=Dumas+ma%C3%B1ara&hl=es&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Don Juan de Marana was also the title of an opera by the British writer Arnold Bennett. In the 20th century Apollinaire also wrote about him, while the brothers Manuel and Antonio Machado produced the play Don Juan de Mañara (1927). There is also a four-act opera with six music-frames by Henri Tomasi and a libretto adapted from Oscar Venceslas de Lubicz-Milosz's play Miguel Mañara.Milosz, Oscar V.. Miguel Mañara. Encuentro. ISBN 84-7490-265-7. Finally, Esther van Loo produced a pseudo-historical biography Le vrai Don Juan, Don Miguel Mañara, published in Paris in 1950.
External links Mañara, Valdés Leal y las postrimerías del Hospital de la Caridad de Sevilla
Will: transcripción parcial ficha bibliográfica de la copia en el Archivo de la Corona de Aragón, signatura COLECCIONES, Reserva,13. (con acceso an imágenes)
Bibliography Discurso de la verdad, Sevilla, 1778, en la imprenta de Don Luis Bexinez y Castilla, Impresor Mayor de la Ciudad, edición facsímil, Mairena del Aljarafe, 2007, Extramuros Edición. Carlos Ros Carballar, Miguel Mañara, caballero de los pobres, (2002), Editorial San Pablo. Juan Pablo Navarro Rivas, Miguel Mañara. El rico que sirvió a los pobres, (2017), Editorial Maratania.
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