Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was born in Seville in 1836, the son of a well-known painter. Orphaned of his father at five, and then of his mother, he was taken in by his godmother, whose library nourished his first readings. While still young, he went to Madrid to live by his pen. A journalist, he wrote for El Contemporáneo, then became a censor of novels. Suffering from a lung disease, he stayed at the monastery of Veruela. He died in Madrid in 1870; the following year, his friends gathered his writings to help his widow and children.

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