BIOGRAPHY OF MARIANO MELGAR

(1790-1815)

Lover of the homeland and the

freedom, poet, musician and

painter.

He/She was born in Arequipa on the 10th of

August 1790. Like his

parents belonged to a
family of good standing,
pudo recibir una esmerada educación. A los tres años ya sabía leer,
by the age of eight he dominated Latin and by twelve he spoke Italian and English,

thus demonstrating to be a child prodigy. He oriented himself towards theology,

studying at the San Jerónimo Seminary in Arequipa. After

meeting Manuelita Paredes, discovered her true vocation
poetic and wrote his first yaravíes, a lyrical poetic form with the
which expressed sadness and bitterness. The relationship with Manuelita did not

he prospered, but he helped Melgar make the decision to quit the habit
ecclesiastical.

Soon a new love arrived, María Santos Corrales, a young woman who
it was the source of inspiration for the most grandiose notes of his lyre.

In 1811 he traveled to Lima to study Jurisprudence, he prepared to

fight for the freedom of the homeland and strengthened his liberal conviction.
The Pumacahua revolution began in Cusco in the year 1814,
He joined the fight. He bravely directed the artillery in the battle.
from Humachirí, but he was captured by the royalists. He was
executed on March 12, 1815.
 WORKS OF MARIANO MELGAR

Elegies
Elegy I (Why did I return to see you, dear Silvia?)
Elegy II (Oh pain! How, how so distant)
Elegy III (Why does she mourn, if the night comes...)
Elegy IV (Musty cypress that you wear)
Elegy V (When I remember the painful days)
Odes:
To freedom
To solitude
To the dream
To the author of the sea
To the Count of Vista Florida
Fables:
The Nightingale and the Carriage Driver
(1813)
The Bat
The Cats
"El cantero y el asno" (1827)
"The Bees" (1827)
"The Horned Donkey" (1827)
"Las cotorras y el zorro" (1830)
Domestic Birds
"El Sol" (1891)
The whale and the wolf
Epistle
Letter to Silvia
Sonnets:
The woman
To Silvia
Yaravíes(71) as
come back, I can't take it anymore.
To Silvia.
Oh my sad misfortune.
 Yaravi, come back, no. Why, tell me, are you distancing yourself?

I CAN Why with impious hate

Come back, I can't anymore You leave a loving owner
Living without your affection: For looking for cliffs?
Come back my little dove,
Do you want to abandon like this?
Return to your sweet nest
Look, there are hunters Your seat is so old?
That with wicked intent So it must stay like this.
My empty heart?
They will put you in their networks Come back, little dove,
Attractive mortals; Return to your sweet nest.
And when they take you captive Don't think that I have entered.
They will give you cruel martyrdom: Here is another little bird:
No my little dove,
Just in case they catch you, Nobody touches this place.
Flee from danger.
Come back, my dove, Yours is my entire chest,
Return to your sweet nest Yours is this free will;
And for you alone I cry
No one should love you With lovers' sighs.
As I have loved you, Come back, little dove,
You deceive yourself if you pretend
Return to your sweet nest.
Find finer love.
I only recognize
There will be other golden nests,
Your beautiful colors,
But not like mine, I will only know how to give them
For whom your heart spilled Your deserved appreciation,
Her first moans.
I only deserve it this way
Return to me, my little dove,
To enjoy your affection;
Return to your nest. And only in me can you
Enjoy peaceful days.
You know well that I, always
In your embedded love, Come back my little dove,
I never touched your feathers, Return to your sweet nest.
It is a day of divine dawn;
Do not be a tyrant, then;
If someone else can touch them Make peace with me already:
And dispel its brightness, No more tired crying
Save your best garment Your whim has me.
Come to the safe asylum.
Don't come back, don't continue
Come back, little dove,
Your twisted turns;
Return to your nest. Your golden wings
Revolve, for I have expired. Living without your affection,
Come back my little dove,
Come back, I can't anymore Return to your sweet nest
Why have I come back to see you dear Silvia?

From the revolutionary poet Mariano Melgar

Why I returned to see you,

Dear Silvia?

Oh sad, for what?

To exchange my pain
in a sadder farewell.

Anxious love,
my fatal chain,
he brought me
with strong influence,
I said: I am already happy,
my happiness is complete.

It would have been better

that this sky
I wouldn't look back;
and only the crying
it was in my absence
all my comfort.

So, brave sea,

your strong war;
islands without a port
the cities return;
and in a single one to me
with Silvia it is locked!
 BIOGRAFÍA DE ABRAHAM VALDELOMAR

Abraham Valdelomar Pinto was born in Ica on the 27th

of April 1888. His parents were
Anfiloquio Valdelomar and Carolina Pinto. Passed
his childhood in Pisco, whose port and the sea
later influenced his work. He studied
secondary school at the Guadalupe school in Lima.

In 1905, he entered the Faculty of Arts.

the University of San Marcos. However,
he left classes the following year to work as a draftsman in the
Monos y Monadas and Actualidades magazines. Their first poems
he published them in the magazine Contemporáneos; and his first short stories
they appeared in Variedades e Ilustración Peruana.

His early work was influenced by Manuel González Prada.

poems, journalistic chronicles, and stories, as well as two distinguished
novelas cortas: La ciudad de los tísicos (1911) y La ciudad muerta
(1911), in which the author's devotion to Gabriele is evident.
D'Annunzio.

In 1912, he supported the presidential candidacy of Guillermo Billinghurst.

who upon winning appointed him Director of the newspaper El Peruano. In 1913
traveled as a diplomat to Rome, where he wrote his greatest work
important, The Knight Carmelo.

Upon his return to Peru, after the overthrow of Billinghurst, in 1914,

he worked as the personal secretary of the Peruvian polygraph José de la
Riva-Agüero, under whose influence he wrote La mariscala, biography
novel by Francisca Zubiaga, wife of President Agustín
Gamarra.

He returned to work as a journalist at La Prensa, where he used the

pseudonym of 'The Count of Lemos'. He became a regular at the Palais
Concert, where he founded the influential literary magazine Colónida and
he led the intellectual movement of the same name, of a cutting edge.
esthetician. That same year he published The Multiple Voices, where
his famous poems Tristitia and The Absent Brother appear in the
Easter dinner.

In 1919, he represented Ica at the Regional Congress of the Center and at

a meeting in Ayacucho had a fall that caused it to
muerte. Falleció el 3 de noviembre de 1919.
 Works of Abraham Valdelomar
Novels
1911 - The dead city
1911 - The city of the tuberculous
1911 - Holy Herb
Stories
Valdelomar gathered his Creole stories in
a book titled The Enchanted Village
(1914) which was never published.
Then those stories became part of
his anthological book The Knight Carmelo
(Lima, 1918). A second book of his
stories, The Sons of the Sun, inspired by the
Incan past was published later
of his death (Lima, 1921).

All the stories collected in said

books, added to others collected from
newspapers and magazines, they can be
organize, following the designations
given by the same author, of the following
way:

Creole Tales:
The knight Carmelo. First prize of the literary contest of
diario "La Nación" de Lima (1913).
The Eyes of Judas
The flight of the condors
The black ship
holy herb
The parachute
Hebaristo, the willow that died of love
Exotic Tales:
The ice palace
The wax virgin
Cinematic tale:
Evans' kiss
Yankee Tales:
The circle of death, whose first version was titled The
suicide of Richard Tennyson
Three sevens, two aces
Chinese tales:
The innards of the superior or rather The story of the little one
shame
 The stinking sinister well, that is, The story of the Great Council
of Siké
The Sentimental Danger or The Cause of Siké's Ruin
The Chin-Fu-Ton or The Story of the Hungry
heartless
Whong-Fau-Sang or the grim dark disease
Humorous stories:
The tragedy in a flask
The story of a documented and truncated life
The sentimental city. A tale, a dog, and a leap
A brief true story of a little rat
My friend was cold and I had a nut shell coat.
Borrowed souls. Heliodoro, the clock, my new friend.
Incan Tales:
The Ayar Brothers
The soul of the quena
The potter (Sañu-Camayok)
The path to the Sun
The shepherd and the flock of snow
The Eyes of the Kings, whose first version was titled
Beyond Death.
Chaymanta Huayñuy, whose first version was titled The
cursed man
The wandering singer
Fantastic tales:
The golden seahorse
The end of the desolate truth
Poetry
His poetry, scattered among his prose published in newspapers and
magazines, has been included in compilations made after their
death. During his lifetime, the author published ten of his compositions.
poetics in the anthology book The Multiple Voices (Lima, 1916).

Below is a list of your poetic compositions in order

chronological

1909 - My soul has lived...

1909 - The defeated thinkers...
1910 - The offering of Odhar...
1910 - The Hungarian violins
1910 - The tribe of Korsabad
1910 - Toast
1910 - The great hour
1910 - The Last Afternoons
1911 - The Ivory Tower
1911 - Triptych:
The evocation of the grandmothers
Evocation of the dead city
Evocation of the grenades.
1913? - Intimate
1913 - In memory of (to Rosa Gamarra Hernández)
1913? - Intimate Diary
1913 - The Unknown Traveler
1913 - The absent brother at the Easter dinner
1913? - The Exorcism
1913 - Luna Park
1914? - Heart…
1914 - Desolatrix (The cross opens its arms over the chest of the
dead...)
1915? - The cemetery tree
1915 - Back
1915 - The Minister of the Interior
1915 - National liquidation
1915 - The one from Huaraz
1915 - Desolatrix (An album... A lady who among the pages
tersos...)
1916 - Nocturne
1916? - Optimism
1916 - Twilight
1916 - Sadness
1916 - Fugaz
1916 - I confess
1916? - Open the well…
1916 - The family house
1916 - Ritornello
1916? - Cowardice
1916? - At the Viceroy Amat's estate
1916? - You are happy!...
1916 - [Your body in eleven modules...]
1916 - Maximum award to Andrés Dalmau
1916 - In Tortola Valencia (in collaboration with José Carlos
Mariátegui and Alberto Hidalgo
1917 - Lyric Letters to the chosen young poet
1917 - Offertory
1917 - The city of the tuberculars
1917 - Offering
1918 - The child
1918 - Oh, sinner
1918? - With unsteady steps
1918 - Angelus
1918 - Anguish
1918 - [Meanwhile, let's walk on the escape path...]
1918 - [I come to you...]
1918 - The Dance of the Hours
1919 - Blanca the bride
1919? - Let's go to the countryside...

1919 - You placed in my pain

1919 – Elegy

Poetic prose
1918 - Heroic Triptych:
Prayer to the flag
Invocation to the homeland
Prayer to Saint Martin
Theater
1911 - The Flight (Drama in two acts inspired by the fateful flight)
of Carlos Tenaud, pioneer of Peruvian aviation. They are preserved
only fragments)
1916 - The Field Marshal (Drama in verse, in 6 acts, written in
collaboration with José Carlos Mariátegui
1917 - Verdolaga (Pastoral tragedy in 3 acts of which only)
(they preserve fragments)
?... - Words (Modernist and allegorical tragedy in 1 act)
Essays
1915 - The psychology of turtles
1916 - Essay on Caricature
1916 - The stomach of the City of Kings
1916 - Psychology of the Dying Pig
1917 - Asylum Literature
1917 - Fundamental values of dance. First prize of
Ateneo de Lima - Journalists' Circle Competition, 1917.
1917 - Essay on the psychology of the vulture. First Prize,
President of the Republic - Journalist Circle Competition
1917.
1918 - Belmonte, the tragic. Essay on a future aesthetic through
On New Art (book of essays).
Chronicles and reports
1910 - Towards the throne of the sun
1910 - With the Algerian flag in the wind. Medal of the Municipality of
Lima, 1911.
1913 - Chronicles of Rome
1915 - Report on the Lord of Miracles
Historical Narratives and Chronicles
1917 - The Dream of San Martín
1918 - The Loves of Pizarro