{"id":9260,"date":"2018-12-03T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/lugar\/house-of-the-masks\/"},"modified":"2021-11-16T08:57:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T08:57:17","slug":"carmen-de-los-mascarones","status":"publish","type":"lugar","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/lugar\/carmen-de-los-mascarones\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmen de los Mascarones"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Agua Street, in the Albayc\u00edn quarter, is the landscaped and almost secret house where the poet Pedro Soto de Rojas, praised by Cervantes and Lope de Vega, a great friend of G\u00f3ngora and canon of El Salvador Collegiate, lived. The place is known as the Carmen de los Mascarones (House of the Figureheads) and is linked to Lorca and the group from the Ateneo de Granada<\/a> who paid tribute to him in 1926 and placed a ceramic plaque of Fajalauza in his memory, which is still preserved and was designed by Hermenegildo Lanz<\/a>. The house is preserved intact and is privately owned.<\/p>\n

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Plaque in tribute to Pedro Soto de Rojas, with a drawing by Hermenegildo Lanz, placed at the initiative of the Ateneo de Granada.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The house was built in the first third of the 16th century on plots of land that had previously been a Moorish house. Soto, son of a wealthy family, spent two decades in Madrid as a high-ranking official and held positions linked to the Conde Duque de Olivares. There he met Cervantes and Lope, among other authors of the Golden Age. In 1626, he took the habits of a priest and returned to Granada as a canon of the\u00a0church of El Salvador<\/a>, in the Albayc\u00edn. In this neighborhood he had his house built with a large garden profusely decorated with fountains and statues that, like most of the houses<\/a>, jealously guards its interior wealth from the gaze of others. The sculptor Jos\u00e9 de Mora lived there a few years later.<\/p>\n

In the Carmen de los Mascarones, Soto wrote his best-known book, Paradise Closed for Many, Gardens Open for a Few<\/em>, a title that not only describes the house itself where he resided, but is the “most exact definition of Granada”, according to Garc\u00eda Lorca.<\/p>\n

In those months prior to the tribute to G\u00f3ngora at the Seville Athenaeum, where the Generation of ’27 took shape, the members of the Ateneo de Granada wanted to pay tribute to Soto de Rojas, a contemporary of Don Luis himself. Lorca contributed with a lecture on the baroque poet, delivered at the Athenaeum on October 17, 1926. Two days later he read the Eclogue\u00a0<\/em>and three madrigals by Soto and even tried to start a critical edition of Closed Paradise<\/em> which was never printed for lack of money and sponsors.<\/p>\n

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The presidency of the Athenaeum, with the Granada poet Mr. Garc\u00eda Lorca, at the tribute paid by the Ateneo itself to the great 17th century poet Pedro Soto de Rojas. \/ Photo: Trino Guevara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lorca was unable to attend the tribute paid to Soto by the athenaeists, however, as he was on tour with La Barraca<\/a>. During the tribute they placed a plaque designed by Hermenegildo Lanz in the Carmen de los Mascarones.<\/p>\n

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