El Arlequín (1867-1868)

In the last course of his step along the Piarist Fathers School of Reus, at the end of 1867 and beginning of 1868, when Gaudí was fifteen years old, Eduard Toda and Josep Ribera edited a manuscript magazine. It was something frequent in that college. Their inseparable friend Gaudí wanted to collaborate with a few drawings. The magazine was called "The Harlequin". It published twelve numbers, with an issue of twelve manuscript copies and a price of two quarters. It had two epochs. In the first one, of nine numbers that appeared weekly between November 22, 1867 and January 31, 1868, there was subtitled "serious - burlesque newspaper". The articles are of festive and cultural tone, accompanied of romantic or humorous poems. The second epoch, from the Revolution of September, is formed by three more numbers, between October and December, 1868, in that already Gaudí did not collaborate. "The Harlequin" changes radically contents, which acquire a marked political tone, of anticlerical and anti-Borbon monarchy line. It subtitled "newspaper of the shade that gives it the desire".