Passion and Death in Ronda: The Murder of Corregidor Miguel de Salamanca y Quiñones (1708)

Abstract

Violence against the performance of political power was present in the Modern Age and its result was the murder of several representatives of royal authority.  The attack perpetrated in 1708 againts the mayor of Ronda Moguel de Salamanca Quiñones, manifested itself as public crime with serius social repercussions, although in circumstances of apparent normality in the daily course of life in an important Andalusian city. Despite the long process that condemned the culprit, the criminal of noble origin did not serve his sentence, since he found facilities for his escape and disappearance.