Cirilo Villaverde

Cirilo Villaverde was born on 28 October 1812 at San Diego de Núñez, a sugar estate in the Pinar del Río region where his father was the physician. A bachelor of law in Havana, he taught and wrote, then became secretary to General Narciso López. Arrested in 1848 and sentenced to death, he escaped the following year and reached New York, where he contributed to La Verdad. He helped fix the design of the Cuban flag and died in New York in October 1894.

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• NovelCecilia Valdés or El Angel HillCecilia Valdés o La Loma del ÁngelCirilo Villaverde · 1882Literature