In Puerto Rico, rector Jaime Benítez, great defender and advocate of Spanish culture, turned the Río Piedras University into an important reference point regarding the exile of Spanish intellectuals, with guests such as Federico Onís, who settled there after his retirement from Columbia, Cristóbal Ruiz, Pau Casals, María Zambrano, Fernando de los Ríos, Francisco Ayala, José Ferrater Mora, Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén, José Gaos, León Felipe and many others. Amongst them were Zenobia Camprubí and Juan Ramón Jiménez, who came from the United States in November 1950 and settled permanently on the Caribbean island. The Nobel Prize awarded to Jiménez in 1956 represents the recognition of the cultural legacy of Spain’s Silver Age.
Eugenio Granell, Ruedas de la fortuna, 1947. Óleo sobre lienzo. Colección particular, Santo Domingo. Cortesía de la Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid.