Casa natal del Tresorer Cladera
Carrer del Tresorer Cladera, 54-60
Casa natal del Tresorer Cladera
Group of houses, currently renovated into a single building. Cristóbal Cladera i Company (1760-1818), priest and Frenchified politician, was born in one of them.
In 1792 he was appointed treasurer of the Cathedral of Palma. He earned a doctorate in Civil and Canon Law and excelled in his studies of Philosophy and Theology; he also mastered numerous languages such as English, French, Greek, Latin, Arabic and Italian, among others.
Cristóbal Cladera was dedicated to translating works of the French Enlightenment and when Napoleon's troops invaded Spain in 1808, he was deputy for the Balearic Islands. In the War of Independence he appeared as Minister of the Interior and Secretary of State of the new king.
Local authors. History and literature:
"That the celebrated men of a nation are persecuted by the envy of a few, who lack the means of overthrowing with glory the rivalry of wisdom, is such an incontestable axiom, that from the first centuries of mankind it has been worked out to the present day...." Exiled from Spain, he asked the government for permission to return to the island, this small and beautiful homeland as he calls it, not only to cure his homesickness, but also to defend himself from the cause to remove him from the position of treasurer.
Cristóbal Cladera and Company. From Pau Joan Server y Rotger. Historian.
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