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In the mid-19th century, Nueva Granada started a new phase of its democratic experience characterized by the appearance of the Liberal and Conservative parties. Faced with this new political scenario, the public writers of Nueva Granada who were linked to those parties sought to enrich their political interventions through the reading of foreign political events. It was also through this means that they sought to structure their partisan identities. This article studies different readings regarding the French Revolution of 1848 in the Colombian political scenario of the second half of the 19th-century. Through the analysis of the newspapers and other printed media, such as books, brochures and leaflets, the different notions of the French Revolution were reconstructed in Colombia during the second half of the 19th-century. The text is divided into three sections. The first section examines the attention paid to the Revolution by the Nueva Granada press during 1848. The second section reconstructs the conservative arguments about the link between the Nueva Granada Liberals and the French socialists. In the third section, Liberal interpretations of French socialist thinking are explored. This analysis has shown the richness and originality of Colombian political thinking in the 19th century, not yet widely explored in various aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the historical assessment of Spanish author Francisco de Quevedo's works from the 17th century through the first half of the 20th century. It examines Quevedo as an essayist and satirist whose works were deemed to denounce political abuses and despotism, especially against the Conde-Duque de Olivares, also known as Gaspar de Guzmán. The author analyzes the re-examination of the interpretation of Quevedo's works and ideology in the 20th century, which asserted that he sought to justify the political rulers and their actions at the time. He proposes a more thorough reading of Quevedo through a historical and philological, rather than a romantic or Marxist, basis.

The article analyzes references to ancient Greek and Latin history, mythology, and literature in the essays of Francisco Bilbao Barquín. It begins with a discussion of Chilean politics at the beginning of the 19th Century and Bilbao's writings on Chilean society relating to freedom, equality, and the country's independence. The article then focuses on Bilbao's creation and participation in the "Sociedad de la Igualdad," discussing his reliance on Greco-Latin works and poets as support for his works. The author concludes that Bilbao's works show the continued presence of antique literature, particularly after his first trip to Europe, as well as the roles of Greece and Rome within his writings.