Ricardo Palma

Other names/titles:
Gender: M
Ethnic origin: Mulatto/a

Biographical details

Born in 1833, the illegitimate son of mulattos Pedro Palma and Guillerma Carillo. He published poems in the newspaper El Comercio in 1848. In 1860 he took part in a conspiracy against Ramón Castillo (later his friend). He lived in exile in Chile from 1860-1863; then went to Europe (London, Paris and Venice). In 1868 he was President José Balta's personal secretary. He was director of the National Library from 1883-1911. He died in Miraflores on 6 October 1919. (Keightly, 613-614)

He wrote historical anecdotes, from whatever took his fancy in the newspapers. (Coaster, 254-255)

He was friend of Rosa Campusano's son, Alejandro. Palma met Campusano in 1846 and described her beauty. (Estrada, 48-50)

He wrote about Juana la Marimacho.

Life Events

Born	1833	He was born in Lima on 7 February 1833.
Other	1846	He met Rosa Campusano in Lima.
Other	1848	He published poems in the newspaper El Comercio, Peru.
Other	1860	He took part in a conspiracy against President Ramón Castillo.
Other	1861	He was in exile in Chile from 1860-1863.
Other	1864	He travelled to Europe (London, Paris, Venice).
Other	1868	He was Secretary to President José Balta.
Married	1876	He married Cristina Román.
Other	1883	He was director of the National Library from 1883-1911.
Died	1919	He died on 6 October 1919, Miraflores.

References

Coester, Alfred, (1919), The Literary History of Spanish America

Estrada, Jenny, (1984), Mujeres de Guayaquil, siglo XVI al siglo XX

Smith, Verity, (1997), Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

R.O. Jones, (1973), Spanish American Literature Since Independence

Publications
There is no writing by this subject in the database.

Links
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