 The contemporary Neo-classical Enlightenment writer José Joaquín de Mora countered that the worst thing to befall Spanish culture was the work of Calderón, in which bad taste was the norm.This exchange ignited a row between the two that would appear in newspapers in Madrid.Between 1818 and 1819, Böhl de Faber published in the "Diario Mercantil Gaditano" a series of articles defending Spanish theater of the Siglo de Oro, a genre much maligned by the Spanish "Neo-Classicists" who rejected its style along with the reactionary and traditionalist ideology it represented.