Mariano Melgar

Mariano Melgar was born in Arequipa on 10 August 1790, the son of Juan de Dios Melgar y Sanabria and Andrea de Valdivieso. Trained at the seminary of San Jerónimo, he studied philosophy and theology there, received minor orders in 1810 and taught Latin, rhetoric and mathematics. He loved María Santos Corrales, seven years his junior, whose parents opposed their union. He left in 1812 to study law in Lima, joined in 1814 the uprising of Mateo Pumacahua as auditor of war and fought at Umachiri on 11 March 1815. He died the next day, aged twenty-four.

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• PoetryPoesíasMariano Melgar · 1878not translated into EnglishLiterature