Fernando Garcia de Cortazar's work is a masterpiece of sensitivity and sense

A love story. A story about a passion for history that has never wavered. The Church, the Basque Country and Spain. Not only for their incontestable facts but also because of the beautiful landscapes. For heritage, art, literature. For people, their ideals, faith, and their greatness. Fernando Garcia de Cortazar's indefatigable existence has been a testament to love filled with meaning and sensibility.

It makes sense to demolish, with an iron fist some of the false myths that nationalist fevers have created since the 19th Century. With a "penetrating eye", to return to the great spanish history, rescuing it from both interested interpretations as well as "reductions," as it was rightly pointed out when it received the 2020 Bravo Prize. Spreading history to all audiences by sharing their love and admiration. His texts for High School and his television series. Or the 'Brief History of Spain', which is undoubtedly his most important and successful historiographic editorial achievement. Artola's most distinguished disciple has been awarded not only one our most prestigious national History awards but also one the most important references of our times.

Sensitivity, which allows us to draw from history not only the lessons, but also the emotions. This sensitivity allows us to connect Garcia de Cortazar with the men from the Generation of ‘98 a century later. That love and that pain that Spain has to offer writers like Machado, Unamuno, Azorin and Baroja. He left behind a book that was filled with the most inspiring and exciting moments of Spain's history. It was his ability to seamlessly integrate the Basque Country landscapes with the Spanish peasants in the course of events. To discuss the facts and circumstances of our common future through the vibration of literature or art. Garcia de Cortazar, in all his conferences and meetings, always referred to literature and poetry as "historiographical resources" that can transmit to the reader the truth of the facts and their transcendence. He relied on this help as a key part of his speeches, and he also led by example. His books were distinguished by the clarity and conciseness of his data, which is typical of historians and popularizers through journalistic articles. He also displayed a personal literary style and carefully crafted language. These emotions were also expressed in his many public appearances. There, he often extolled the Quevedo, Machado and Garcilaso verses. historical.

He was a man of sense and sensibility who also promoted intellectual adventures such as the Culture Classrooms. These classrooms are used by thousands of people each year, as well as millions of Internet surfers. His newspapers El Correo, and ABC, were always at the forefront, but he also had a deep involvement with the local cultural reality of each Vocento group's newspaper. This absolute incardination, of local history in national, was part of La historia en su lugar which he wrote and in which 200 foreign and Spanish historians worked together. He had a way of being, feeling, and interpreting history that led him to put his life at risk in order to defend civil rights in a Basque Country, and a Spain under threat from the intransigence, terror, and ETA. The national is the sum of the locale, in a model for citizenship, harmony, and culture with a background view forever illuminated by history.

It is a sensitive and sensible portrait. This must be paired with his other great delivery, his work as a teacher or priest of the Society of Jesus. His projection towards others. His ability to leave an impression on his students from the University of Deusto. He loved the closeness, the company, and the consolation. He shared important moments in his life with them, as well as the daily lives of the families and people he helped through the priestly work.

You can also travel from one area to the next in the national geography. This is especially true in Castile and in the Basque Country. He was a junior Jesuit in Villagarcia de Campos and a student at Philosophy and Letters in Salamanca when he completed his novitiate. He also studied theology at Madrid while he was in Pamplona for his teaching stage. His great experiment of integrating history into men's essence were made possible by people and places. This little story, this intra-history Unamuno spoke about, which at the end always transforms the lives of each person into the common future.