Saavedra, Ángel de, duque de Rivas

Saavedra, Ángel de, duque de Rivas

▪ Spanish author
born March 10, 1791, Córdoba, Spain
died June 22, 1865, Madrid

      Spanish poet, dramatist, and politician, whose fame rests principally on his play Don Álvaro, o la fuerza del sino (“Don Álvaro, or the Power of Fate”), which marked the triumph of Romantic drama in Spain.

      After entering politics Saavedra was condemned to death in 1823 for his extreme liberal views. He fled to London and lived subsequently in Italy, Malta, and France, where he earned his living by painting. During his exile he came under that Romantic influence which, already visible in El moro expósito (1834; “The Foundling Moor”), was to triumph in his Romances históricos (1841; “Historical Romances”), both significant examples of his Romantic poetry.

      Returning to Spain after the amnesty of 1833, he presently inherited the title of duke de Rivas and on March 22, 1835, staged Don Álvaro, whose place in the history of the Spanish theatre is analogous to that of Victor Hugo's drama Hernani in France. The Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (Verdi, Giuseppe) later used Don Álvaro as the source for his opera La forza del destino. Saavedra's later dramas are undistinguished. In 1836 he became minister of the interior under Francisco de Istúriz and in the following year was again compelled to flee the country owing to his conversion to conservative opinions. Returning to Spain in 1838, he entered the Senate and was subsequently ambassador in Naples and Paris. He died while serving as president of the Spanish Royal Academy.

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