Juan Montalvo

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Juan María Montalvo Fiallos (April 13, 1832 in Ambato – January 17, 1889 in Paris) was an Ecuadorian author and essayist. Born in Ambato to José Marcos Montalvo and Josefa Fiallos, he studied philosophy and law in Quito before returning to his hometown in 1854. He held diplomatic posts in Italy and France from 1857 to 1859. A political liberal, Montalvo's beliefs were marked by anti-clericalism and a keen hatred for the two caudillos that ruled Ecuador during his life: Gabriel García Moreno and Ignacio de Veintemilla. After an issue of El Cosmopolita viciously attacked Moreno, Montalvo was exiled to Colombia for seven years. Moreno's assassination was attributed to Montalvo's writings. He was a dedicated champion of democracy and an enemy of the writer Juan León Mera. In the late seventies Juan Montalvo was twice exiled to France, remaining there from 1879, as punishment for Las catilinarias (1880), the work that made him famous throughout intellectual circles in the United States, Europe and the rest of Latin America. Alongside full-length books, Montalvo was an accomplished essayist, and his Siete Tratados (1882) and Geometría Moral (published in 1902, after his death) were popular in Ecuador and were banned by Veintemilla. He also wrote a witty sequel to Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, called Capítulos que se le Olvidaron a Cervantes ("Chapters Cervantes Forgot"), published posthumously in 1895. He died of tuberculosis in Paris. His mummified body now rests in a mausoleum in his birthplace of Ambato.

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Capítulos que se le olvidaron a Cervantes
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El Quijote visto desde América
Representative edition published 2005
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Simón Bolívar
Representative edition published 1994
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Selections
Representative edition published 1993
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Las catilinarias
Representative edition published 1989
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Selections from Juan Montalvo
Representative edition published 1984
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Simón Bolívar, libertador de la América del Sur
Representative edition published 1983
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Montalvo en su epistolario
Representative edition published 1982
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Las catilinarias ; El cosmopolita ; El regenerador
Representative edition published 1977
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Siete tratados
Representative edition published 1977
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Mercurial eclesia stica, libro de las verdades
Representative edition published 1946
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De la risa
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Catilinarias
Representative edition published 1906
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Capítulos que se le olvidaron a Cervantes
Representative edition published 1898
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Inéditos y artículos escojidos de Juan Montalvo
Representative edition published 1897
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El espectador
Representative edition published 1886
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Siete tratados
Representative edition published 1882
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Siete tratados
Representative edition published 1882
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Juan Montalvo
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Relatos hispánicos asombrosos y de terror
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Juan Montalvo
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El pensamiento político de Montalvo
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Juan Montalvo
Representative edition published 2004
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Epistolario de Montalvo
Representative edition published 1995
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