Martín Sarmiento

He wrote on a wide variety of subjects, including Literature, Medicine, Botany, Ethnography, History, Theology, Linguistics, etc.

He was definitively settled in Madrid, stay that is interrupted between February 1726 and May 1727, when he moved to Toledo to catalog the books of the cathedral, and also to visit three times Galicia.

Sarmiento thought that Galician should be taught in schools and priests should know it in order to confess people.

His erudition in many disciplines made him be commissioned the iconographic program that would decorate the Royal Palace of Madrid.

Sarmiento designed an ambitious allegory of the history of the Spanish monarchy for the palace, it was so complex that only a part of it was done.

He posted two books in Feijoo's memory Demostración crítico-apologética del Theatro Crítico Universal in 1732.