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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.

Biography

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

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, representing Peru in Chile and a minister in the cabinet of presidents Felipe Santiago Salaverry, Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco and Ramón Castilla.

Pardo married Petronila de Lavalle y Cabrero, daughter of the 2nd . He was father of Manuel Justo Pardo Lavalle and grandfather of José Pardo y Barreda, presidents of the Republic.

Works

Essays and travelogues

  • Un viaje 1840 "El viaje del niño Goyito"

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