in the regeneration of Iberia's imperial past rather than turn about and face the twentieth century. For Alomar, the future was far more important than the past, and so this addiction was Spain's main problem. Thus the name. Diplomat Gabriel Alomar was the Spanish Ambassador to Italy (1932–34) and Egypt from 1937 to the end of the Spanish Civil War but remained in Egypt until his death in Cairo in 1941. Influence Gabriel Alomar had many occupations in his life, but throughout it he was constantly in demand as a writer of prologues. He wrote dozens, in Castilian Spanish, Catalan, and French, for editions of famous writers and for young authors needing a boost. See also L'Esquella de la Torratxa References External links Webpage devoted to Gabriel Alomar at LletrA (UOC), Catalan Literature Online), in Catalan. 1873 births 1941 deaths People from Palma de Mallorca Socialist Union of Catalonia politicians Members of the Congress of Deputies of the Second Spanish Republic Ambassadors of Spain to Italy Ambassadors of Spain to Egypt 20th-century Spanish poets Spanish children's writers Spanish essayists Catalan-language poets Catalan-language writers Modernisme Spanish male poets Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction) Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in Egypt 20th-century essayists 20th-century Spanish male writers