La Aveja en el Jardín Florido: a calendar edited during the Peninsular War

Abstract

La Aveja en el Jardín Florido was a publication which appeared in Valencia in 1811. It shows how a publication type of the eighteenth century press changed because of the struggle between French and Spaniards. The author, Francisco Xavier Ribera Aravitg, was a doctor from Sitges, Catalonia, interested in prediction and calendars. His writings in Valencia, in the middle of the Peninsular War, had its continuity twenty years later in some other calendars, with the same title, which must have been success among the Catalonian readers during the thirties and forties of the nineteenth century. But the big difference between the issues of the thirties and the Peninsular War ones was the topics on politics.