sentences:  For he was a very elegant orator in Verse as well as Prose.He was an ingenious, sententious, sweet, gallant and brilliant Catalan poet, as his book shows" [translation of Spanish original] (f.104r).Romaguera was known as a defender of the Catalan language, and indeed in the Prologue to the "Atheneo" he states that his book is an attempt to give "an inspiration to Catalan pens."