Fernando Martínez Pedrosa

Fernando Martínez Pedrosa or de la Pedrosa (Madrid, 1830 - id., 1892) was a Spanish writer, journalist and playwright of Realism.

He collaborated in The Universal Museum, Politics, Nation and Good Sense, and directed The Doctor to Palos and the Catholic Enlightenment. In 1865 impelled with Eduardo Bustillo the Magazine of Theaters. He used the pseudonyms "El Conde de Cabra" and "So-and-so" among others. Very gifted for the short narration, he composed an excellent volume of stories, Intimate Tales (1864), Profiles and Colors: Satire of Customs (1882) and Shadows, Traits of Social Physiognomy (1878), a collection of essays on politics , public opinion, theater, education, the feminine condition and so on. It also emphasized like a dramatic author who cultivated all the genres, with the comedies The box of Pandora (1872), in prose; (1861), The Network of Flowers (1861), Of taste there is nothing written: Proverb in one act (1863) 1875, reprinted in 1890), The Hills of Úbeda. (1870), La Pergola Torcaz: Drama in three acts and in verse (1860), The flower of the thistle: burlesque zarzuela in one act (1873), Gramática Parda, comedy in an act and verse (1862) , Equilibrios del amor, zarzuela with music by Cristóbal Oudrid and Manuel Fernández Caballero and his libretto (1862), The Mother of the Lamb: Comedy in three acts and in original verse (1863)

In verse wrote Estrella; Spanish legend (1856) and Clouds and Flowers; verses (1873, with prologue by Ramón de Campoamor), as well as Salon Dialogues ... representable poems, loose scenes (1887).

A portrait of him is kept in 1872 by the painter Eduardo Rosales.

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