Félix María del Monte

Félix María del Monte was born in Santo Domingo on 19 November 1819. A member of La Trinitaria, he was at the Puerta del Conde on 27 February 1844 and wrote the words of the first national anthem. The first lawyer to qualify under the republic, in 1845, he founded the newspaper El Dominicano with Nicolás Ureña de Mendoza, was a deputy and minister, and spent eleven years in exile in Puerto Rico. A poet, playwright and orator, he died in Santo Domingo on 23 April 1899.

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• PoetryLas vírgenes de GalindoFélix María del Monte · 1885not translated into EnglishLiterature