LOS GARRIGA Y AGUASVIVAS (O, AGUASVIVAS Y GARRIGA), IMPRESORES DE BARCELONA (1801-1857)*

Abstract

This article deals with two issues. On the one hand, it reconstructs the family environment and the publications of the espouses Francisco Garriga Roca and Maria Mercè Aguasvivas in the years enunciated, when they had unified their printing workshop and bookshop thanks to their marriage. On the other, it analyzes the works they printed sometimes in a very trouble political time. Some of these prints had a very special importance in its historical context. It must be stressed that during the Napoleonic War Francisco Garriga Roca and his wife were constitutionalist and later clerical moderate liberals that had an important role in the Barcelona political fights.

Keywords

• Printers
• Garriga y Aguasvivas
• Aguasvivas
• transition to constitutionalism
• Barcelona
• Francisco Garriga Roca
• Nineteenth Century.