El Papa de la Crítica: Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo y la historiografía literaria francesa

To understand how for a part of French opinion—a very small part, truth be told, since it is fundamentally about Hispanicism—Menéndez Pelayo could become a Pope of criticism and Santander or Madrid—wherever he was— a kind of Rome or Holy See and its library, a Sistine Chapel for Hispanicizing philological pilgrims who came to kiss the ring of their knowledge, I think it is necessary to remember the context in which his prodigious figure emerged.