Felipe Pardo y Aliaga

Felipe Pardo y Aliaga (11 June 1806, Lima – 24 December 1868, Lima) was a Peruvian poet, satirist, playwright, lawyer and politician.[1]

Felipe Pardo y Aliaga.
Portrait by Francisco Laso

Biography

A member of Lima's aristocratic elite, his father was Manuel Pardo Ribadeneira, oidor of Real Audiencia de Lima, and his mother was Mariana de Aliaga y Borda, daughter of 2nd Marquise of Fuente Hermosa.

He was, along with Manuel Ascencio Segura, the most important representative of early Republican Peruvian literature. After independence he participated in political affairs, defending conservative causes. He became a diplomat and a minister in the cabinet of presidents Felipe Santiago Salaverry, Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco and Ramón Castilla.

Pardo married Petronila de Lavalle y Cabero, daughter of 2nd Count of Premio Real. He was father of Manuel Pardo and grandfather of José Pardo y Barreda, presidents of the Republic.

Works

Essays and travelogues

Un viaje 1840 "El viaje del niño Goyito"[2]

Poetry

El carnaval de Lima, 1929
La jeta del guerrero, 1925
La nariz
Los paraísos de Sempronio
El ministro y el aspirante
A mi levita
Qué guapos chicos
Corrida de toros
La lámpara, 1844
A mi hijo en sus días, 1855
Vaya una República, 1856
El Perú, 1856
Constitución política, 1859

Plays

Frutos de la educación, 1830
Una huérfana en Chorrillos, 1833
Don Leocadio y el aniversario de Ayacucho, 1833

References

Gálvez, Soledad (2011). Ihrie, Maureen; Oropesa, Salvador (eds.). World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 737. ISBN 978-0-313-33770-3.
Culture and Customs of Peru César Ferreira, Eduardo Dargent-Chamot - 2003 - Page 114 "Republic appeared was the popular Nino Goyito (Master Goyito), the protagonist of Un viaje (A Voyage; 1840), by Felipe Pardo y Aliaga (1806- 1868)"

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[1] Gálvez, Soledad (2011). Ihrie, Maureen; Oropesa, Salvador (eds.). World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 737. ISBN 978-0-313-33770-3.

[2] Culture and Customs of Peru César Ferreira, Eduardo Dargent-Chamot - 2003 - Page 114 "Republic appeared was the popular Nino Goyito (Master Goyito), the protagonist of Un viaje (A Voyage; 1840), by Felipe Pardo y Aliaga (1806- 1868)"