Felipe Pardo y Aliaga

Felipe Pardo y Aliaga was born in Lima on 11 June 1806, the son of Manuel Pardo Ribadeneira, a Galician magistrate, regent of the audiencia of Cuzco, and of Mariana de Aliaga, daughter of the marquises of Fuente Hermosa. His family went to Spain after independence; in Madrid, he attended the lessons of Alberto Lista. Back in Peru in 1828, he founded in 1840 a newspaper of social criticism, became a diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and went through several exiles, one of them in Chile. His son Manuel and his grandson José would be presidents of the Republic. He died in Lima in December 1868.

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• TheatreFrutos de la educaciónFelipe Pardo y Aliaga · 1830not translated into EnglishLiterature