Juan Montalvo
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Juan María Montalvo Fiallos (13 April 1832 - 17 January 1889) was an Ecuadorian essayist and novelist. His writing was strongly marked by anti-clericalism and opposition to presidents Gabriel García Moreno and Ignacio de Veintemilla. He was the publisher of the magazine El Cosmopolita. One of his best-known books is Las Catilinarias, published in 1880. His essays include Siete tratados (1882) and Geometría Moral (posthumous, 1902). He also wrote a sequel to Don Quixote de la Mancha, called Capítulos que se le olvidaron a Cervantes. He was admired by writers, essayists, intellectuals such as Jorge Luis Borges and Miguel de Unamuno. He died in Paris in 1889. His body was embalmed and is exhibited in a mausoleum in his hometown of Ambato.
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Born | Juan María Montalvo y Fiallos 13 April 1832 Ambato, Ecuador |
Died | 17 January 1889 (1889-01-18) (aged 56) Paris, France |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Ecuadorian |
Literary movement | Romanticism |
Notable works | Las catilinarias (1880), Capítulos que se le olvidaron a Cervantes (1868), Siete Tratados (1882) |