Deed issued by Don Luis de Góngora

Deed issued by Don Luis de Góngora (chaplain to the King) giving his nephew, Don Luis Saavedra y Góngora, canon of the Holy Church, works of “both poetry and prose” that he had done in order for them to be printed and enjoyed. In 1923, the Real Academia de Ciencias, Bellas Letras y Nobles Artes of Cordoba commissioned José de la Torre and three other academy members to organize the tricentenary of the death of Góngora. De la Torre was immersed in his research on notarial protocols until 1927. This research led to the discovery of an article in the Diario Córdoba newspaper which –according to Amelia de Paz– “includes information providing local electoral rolls from the 15th century, and notarial documents relating to various forebears of Don Luis on his mother’s side. He therefore managed to provide convincing evidence that supports the story that the ancestral home of the Góngora family was located on the street now called Tomás Conde in the Jewish quarter of Cordoba.” The second work that appeared in 1927 was the article “Documentos gongorinos” published in the Boletín (official gazette) of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Bellas Letras y Nobles Artes of Cordoba. “In the same official gazette, José de la Torre transcribes a hundred documents on Góngora and his family and claims to have located several thousand of them. It is the largest compendium of Góngora documents ever published hitherto.”