 Having lost his job, he returned to Madrid in 1883 and began working in the Republican journal "El Porvenir" (The Future).In the year 1888 he published "O Divino Sainete", a combined satire on Dante's "Divine Comedy" and the religious establishment of the time in Spain.He also wrote journalism in Spanish extensively, in such remarkable cultural journals of the time as "El Imparcial" and in other Republican publications.