José María Heredia

José María Heredia was born in Santiago de Cuba on 31 December 1803, to parents who had come from Santo Domingo. His father, a magistrate, took the family to Santo Domingo and Caracas; he himself studied law in Havana and in Mexico. Arrested in 1823 for the conspiracy of the Soles y Rayos de Bolívar, he was banished for life, lived two years in the United States, then went to Mexico, where he became a judge. In 1836, after publicly renouncing independence, he saw Cuba again; he died in Mexico on 7 May 1839.

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• PoetryPoesíasJosé María Heredia · 1825not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain