Calle de Escosura

Patricio de la Escosura was born in Madrid in 1807 and educated at the Colegio de San Mateo under the liberal Alberto Lista, where he became friends with José de Espronceda. At barely sixteen he founded, with his classmates, the secret society of the Numantinos, sworn to avenge the death of General Riego and topple the absolutism of Ferdinand VII. The plot was uncovered in 1825 and the young men paid for their conspiratorial zeal with exile. As an adult he split his life between the pen and politics. He cultivated historical drama in the Romantic taste and drove the monumental España artística y monumental. He was a deputy, senator, minister of the interior and, from 1847, a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. His street was never completed: the building of the state motor pool cut off its path and left it a dead end behind Donoso Cortés.