Isidora la federala y mazorquera

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Isidora la federala y mazorquera is against Juan Manuel de Rosas agitating narrative poem by Hilario Ascasubi in 431 verses and two parts. Her full title is:

Isidora la federala y mazorquera. Relación que del embarque, del viaje y del fin trágico de la Arroyera le fue remitido desde el campamento de Oribe al gacetero Jacinto Cielo, por su amigo Anastasio el Chileno, el cual andaba de bombero de los patriotas entre los sitiadores de Montevideo
- in German, for example: Isidora, the federalist and Rosas supporter. Description of the embarkation, crossing and the tragic end of the Arroyera (resident of San Nicolás de los Arroyos ) , which the newspaper seller Jacinto Cielo, who was a fireman of the patriots among the besiegers of Montevideo, was given by his friend Anastasio el Chileno (Anastasio the Chilean) was sent from the Oribes quarter .

The work was first published individually between 1839 and 1851, and finally in 1872 in the anthology Paulino Lucero o los gauchos del Río de la Plata cantando y combatiendo contra los tiranos de la República Argentina y Oriental del Uruguay (1839 a 1851) (1872).

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Like La Refalosa (1843), Isidora la federala y mazorquera is from the point of view of the federalists, i. H. the political opponent of the Unitarian Ascasubi.

First part (verses 1–152)

  • Isidora embarks in Buceo , then still a port near Montevideos. The night before, she attended a dance festival where she smashed a guitar on the head of a soldier. She also dislocated her foot during the Refalosa dance with the Argentine Admiral Guillermo or (because he was born in Ireland) William Brown. She came to Uruguay from San Nicolás de Arroyos with the supporters of Rosas and Oribes. Isidora is a federalist friend of Manuela, the daughter of Juan Manuel de Rosas. It is implied that she has been in financial straits and suffers from a strange eye disease. Nevertheless, Isidora is popular with the men, especially since she refuses to accept anyone. A silent retinue of men has therefore gathered to say goodbye at the port. However, Isidora herself shows no grief. She wears the badge of the Rosas followers and otherwise has a peculiar presentation. When saying goodbye to her husbands, a dagger that Manuel Oribe gave her and that she wears on the garter falls out. A surgeon friend picks it up and hands it to her, almost falling on his stomach.
  • When she parted, Isidora complained to her ophthalmologist about the unfriendliness and lack of solidarity between the Uruguayans and the federalists. Out of resentment towards the Uruguayans, she wants to come with her friend Melchora, slap the Uruguayans and force them to wear the badge of the federalists, even if she has to fix the badge with ship tar. Isidora's resentment is also of a social nature, because she feels offended by the arrogance of the Uruguayan women, who all wear the French style of clothing and in this way set themselves apart from the rather poor federalists. Isidora would like to see her dance Mazorca or Tin tin . She is delighted that, as Rosas wrote to her, Oribe will soon take Montevideo. She too wants her return to be seen as a threat.
  • Once on the beach, one of the men carries her to the boat on his shoulder so that she doesn't get wet.

Part Two (Verses 153-431)

  • All that was told in the first part, Anastasio learned from a spy who stayed with Rosas. The narrator, in turn, knows about Anastasio of everything that has happened. The crossing of Isidoras on a ship of the said Admiral Brown was short. However, Isidora got seasick in between. Only after drinking a bottle of juniper schnapps that she emptied in one gulp was she said to have recovered. She had rejected tea as a foreign drink. When she felt sick, she only drank chamomile or wild rose mate . After the bottle of gin , she ate half of the ship's kitchen to cure her seasickness.
  • Once on the Argentine side, she was taken from the ship to the shore in a boat and finally brought ashore on the shoulders of a seaman. On land she was received by Manuel Corvalán, Rosas' adjutant. They walked arm in arm through the city. Corvalán asked about Fructuoso Rivera and General José María Paz, both of Rosas' political opponents. Isidora couldn't answer him because she was still sick from the crossing and wanted to get to Rosas' house as soon as possible.
  • As soon as she arrived at Rosas' house, Isidora was received by Manuela, the restaurador's daughter . Manuela complained that Isidora had not contacted her for a long time. As proof of their friendship, Isidora gave her a piece of meat that she had cut off a Frenchman. Manuela should put it next to the ears that Oribe had once given Manuela. Manuela showed Isidora to her father's room to show her the body parts of Rosas's political opponents, which he kept there as trophies. Rosas' room is then described as a kind of junk room in which nothing but instruments of torture are piled up. Then the trophies are listed which, according to the story, were kept there by Rosas. Under a whip was a sign that said it had been made from the skin of Berón de Astradas, who had gone to war against Rosas as governor of Corrientes . A torso-free head once belonged to Juan Zelarrayán, whom Rosas had executed in 1831 for refusing to give orders. In addition to a beard and a section of a throat, a note refers to its original owner, Commander Maciel, who fought against Rosas under Lavalle. Furthermore, the handle of a knife was made from the remains of Manuel Vicente Maza, who once worked for Rosas but was then murdered by his secret police for treason. While Isidora marveled at the trophies, she felt satisfaction and harmlessness towards the Unitarians and Rosas' enemies. She saw in them a deterrent against anyone who did not submit to the authority of the Rosas she admired. Even for Manuel Oribe, who had ambitions to be President of Uruguay, in Isidora's opinion the trophies should be a deterrent, because for Isidora there could only be Rosas as ruler.
  • Finally Rosas entered his room. He wore underwear, was drunk and cursed because the Unitarian Venancio Flores had defeated his General Angel Núñez in the Battle of Horqueta del Rosario in Uruguay. In his madness of anger, Rosas had Isidora led away by his henchmen. She then passed out. Shortly before Isidora's execution, Manuela pleaded for the life of her friend, but Rosas did not allow himself to be softened, because he was afraid that Isidora would reveal that he had been impressed by the defeats he had suffered against the Unitarians. Most of all, Rosas was afraid of Fructuoso Rivera, who wanted to put him in a cannon and shoot him into hell so that he could keep things calm and order there as a restaurador .
  • When Isidora was dead, Rosas, who was still drunk, sat down on her corpse, kissed it, and laughed uproariously. He had the "Indians" who had taken Isidora away to throw the body onto the street so that the garbage truck could pick it up in time. The story closes with the moral that the unfortunate Arroyera had an ominous end and it didn’t help her to be a federalist and supporter of Rosas'.

Further information

  • The dances mentioned in Isidora la federala y mazorquera have a macabre aftertaste , as is evident in La Refalosa (1843), another of Ascasubi's poems.
  • The description of the furnishings in Rosas' room is reminiscent of that of the Viejo Vizcacha in José Hernández's La vuelta de Martín Fierro (1879) in verses 2601–2630 (song 17). The Viejo Vizcacha is an eccentric, with whom the second son Martín Fierros finds accommodation and who became famous for the picaresque wisdom put into his mouth by José Hernández (verse 2311-2432 or 15th song).

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"Isidora la federala y mazorquera. Relación que del embarque, del viaje y del fin trágico de la Arroyera le fue remitido desde el campamento de Oribe al gacetero Jacinto Cielo, por su amigo Anastasio el Chileno, el cual andaba de bombero de los patriotas entre los sitiadores de Montevideo ", in: Poesía gauchesca . Biblioteca Ayacucho, Caracas 1977.