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Cirilo Villaverde de la Paz (1812 - 1894) was a Cuban poet, novelist, journalist and freedom fighter. He is best known for Cecilia Valdés, a novel about...

Cecilia Valdés is both a novel by the Cuban writer Cirilo Villaverde (1812–1894), and a zarzuela based on the novel. It is a work of importance for its...

to Philadelphia, where Emilia met and soon after married Cirilo Villaverde. Cirilo Villaverde was a Cuban poet and novelist, most notable for writing the...

Daisy Granados. The film is based on the novel Cecilia Valdés by Cirilo Villaverde. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. The film takes...

José Aniceto Iznaga Borrell, his nephew José María Sánchez Iznaga, Cirilo Villaverde and Juan Manuel Macías, settled upon the final design for the flag...

1838), visited San Diego de los Baños with Cuban writer Cirilo Villaverde (1812-1894). Villaverde subsequently mentioned the settlement in his book “Excursion...

received a literary award for his novel, Singing from the Well, at Cirilo Villaverde National Competition held by UNEAC (National Union of Cuban Writers...

writers of this genre include Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, and Cirilo Villaverde, whose novel Cecilia Valdés was a landmark. Following the abolition...

reference. In the great 19th century Creole novel, Cecilia Valdés by Cirilo Villaverde, the church-hospital is evoked several times because, supposedly,...

Notable writers of this genre include Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and Cirilo Villaverde. Following the abolition of slavery in 1886, the focus of Cuban literature...

same name who fled from her Spanish persecutors. The Cuban novelist Cirilo Villaverde immortalized Guanche Cathaysa in his literary work, La Cueva de Taganana...

playwright, poet, short-story writer and essayist Zoé Valdés, author Cirilo Villaverde Alejandro García Caturla, symphonic composer Mariá Álvarez Rios, composer...

(1992) Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazil resonator trumpet musician (1991) Cirilo Villaverde, writer (2012) Rubén Martínez Villena, revolutionary (1974) Braudilio...

were Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros (1803–66, known as "El Lugareño"), Cirilo Villaverde (1812–94), and José María de Cárdenas y Rodríguez (1812–82). The patrician...

the blacks, begged my mother to come to Spain with their children." Cirilo Villaverde, in his famous novel of the Cuban, Cecilia Valdés, wrote a of slave...

Grenet (La virgen morena) and Gonzalo Roig (Cecilia Valdés, based on Cirilo Villaverde's classic novel) represent a brief golden age of political and cultural...

history of Cuba, volume 2. B. F. Buck & Company. ISBN 9781465514288. Cirilo Villaverde (2005). Sibylle Brouwers-Fischer (ed.). El Angel Hill. Oxford University...

Until then, these patients had been housed in the Maternity Home. Cirilo Villaverde—author of a short story about the Hill of Taganana and of the novel...

Chartreuse de Parme) Philip Meadows Taylor – Confessions of a Thug Cirilo Villaverde – Cecilia Valdés Catherine Sinclair – Holiday House: A Book for the...

Varela 1788–1853 Charlie Vázquez 1971– Dan Vera Carlos Victoria [es] Cirilo Villaverde 1812–1894 Rubén Martínez Villena 1899–1934 José Yglesias 1919–1995...