A Review of 'Carlos Benito González de Posada (1745–1831): Vida y obra de un ilustrado entre Asturias y Cataluña'

Abstract

This is a large work of more than a thousand pages that undertakes an in-depth biographical study of Carlos Benito Gonzalez de Posada, an antiquarian who lived in the politically troubled decades of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The authors, Prof. Jose Remesal, a professor of Ancient History at the University of Barcelona and a member of the Royal Academy of History, and the researcher, Josep Maria Perez, are both connected to the CEIPAC, one of the most active research centres for the study of antiquity (ceipac.gh.ub.es/).