José Victorino Lastarria

José Victorino Lastarria was born in Rancagua in 1817, a date that the destruction of the parish archives leaves uncertain. A disciple of Andrés Bello, he delivered on 3 May 1842 the inaugural address of the Literary Society, regarded as the founding text of the movement of 1842. Arrested in 1850 and exiled to Lima, he returned for the uprising of 1851 and left again for Peru after its failure. A deputy on several occasions, minister of the Interior in 1876, he then sat on the Supreme Court. He died in Santiago on 14 June 1888.

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• NovelDon GuillermoJosé Victorino Lastarria · 1860not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain