Calle de Fernanflor
After Isidoro Fernández Flórez (1840-1902), a writer and journalist who signed his work Fernanflor, founder of Los Lunes de El Imparcial, the most celebrated literary supplement of its day. The city named the street for him in 1902, the year he died; it had previously been called del Florín.
Fernández Flórez co-founded El Liberal and joined the Royal Academy in 1898.
The del Florín name came from a fencing school with rooms here. Tradition recalls Friar Juan Flisco, from the nearby Espíritu Santo convent, killed by a sword thrust as he tried to part two pupils about to duel.
Where that convent stood, the Congress of Deputies was later built, its side façade running along calle de Fernanflor.
According to Pedro de Répide, two students of the fencing school that gave the street its name went out to fight a duel; Fray Juan Flisco, of the nearby convent of the Espíritu Santo, tried to step between them and took the fatal thrust.
Its names
- Calle del Florính.17th century–1902
- Calle de Fernanflor1902
Sources (5)
- Madrid: sus viejas calles — Fernanflor (Calle de)
- Por las calles de Madrid — Calle de Fernanflor
- Isidoro Fernández Flórez — Wikipedia
- Peñasco de la Puente y Cambronero, Las calles de Madrid (1889) — BNE Biblioteca Digital Hispánica
- Isidoro Fernández Flórez — Biblioteca Nacional de España, Escritores en la BNE