Academia Literaria de Querétaro
Academia Literaria de Querétaro
Academia Literaria de Querétaro, a group of persons discontented with the colonial regime that formed in the city of Querétaro, Mexico. It included Corregidor Miguel Domínguez and his wife, Josefa Ortiz De Domínguez; military men such as Ignacio Allende, Juan Aldama, and Mariano Abasolo; clergymen; lawyers; and others, such as the brothers Epigmenio and Emeterio González. At the invitation of Allende, Miguel Hidalgo, curate of Dolores, attended on various occasions. Several members of the group met secretly to conspire against the colonial regime and to plan a popular uprising to apprehend peninsular Spaniards and confiscate their wealth to finance the movement.
The conspirators, who sought to obtain the support of military units, gathered arms and ammunition. They proposed to establish an emperor and some dependent kingdoms. The plot was denounced to the colonial authorities on 13 September 1810, leading to the arrest of several conspirators. Hoping to prevent his wife from notifying the rest of the conspirators, Domínguez, as a magistrate, locked her in their house. But Doña Josefa managed to alert Allende, and he in turn told Hidalgo what had happened. Consequently, Hidalgo launched the uprising on 16 September 1810.
See alsoAbasolo, Mariano; Aldama y González, Juan de; Allende, Ignacio; Domínguez, Miguel; Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel; Ortiz de Domínguez, Josefa.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hugh M. Hamill, Jr., The Hidalgo Revolt, 2d ed. (1970).
Lucas Alamán, Historia de Méjico, vol. 1. (1985).
Carlos María De Bustamante, Cuadro histórico de la Revolución Mexicana, vol. 1 (1985).
Additional Bibliography
Archer, Christon I., ed. The Birth of Modern Mexico, 1780–1824. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2003.
Ibarra Palafox, Francisco A. Miguel Hidalgo: Entre la libertad y la tradición. México, D.F.: Porrúa: Facultad de Derecho, U.N.A.M., 2003.
Rodríguez O, Jaime E., ed. The Origins of Mexican National Politics, 1808–1847. Wilmington: SR Books, 1997.
Virginia Guedea