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Juan Montalvo

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.

Ecuadorian writer (1832-1889)

Born 1832
Died 1889

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  • Cover of: Páginas escogidas
    First published in 1919 11 editions

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  • Cover of: Capítulos que se le olvidaron a Cervantes

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  • Cover of: Siete tratados
    First published in 1882 7 editions

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  • Cover of: Siete tratados
    First published in 1882 4 editions

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    First published in 1923 3 editions

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  • Cover of: catilinarias
    First published in 1977 3 editions

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  • Cover of: Catilinarias
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    First published in 1968 3 editions

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  • Cover of: El espectador
    First published in 1887 3 editions

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  • Cover of: Juan Montalvo: estudios y antología

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  • Cover of: Simón Bolívar, libertador de la América del Sur: por los más grandes escritores americanos

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  • Cover of: Capítulos que se le olvidaron a Cervantes

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    First published in 1942 2 editions

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  • Cover of: Catilinarias
    First published in 1881 2 editions

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  • Cover of: El libro de las pasiones
    First published in 1976 2 editions

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  • Cover of: Geometría moral
    First published in 1968 2 editions

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  • Cover of: Las catilinarias
    First published in 1977 2 editions

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  • Cover of: Obras escogidas.
    First published in 1948 1 edition

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  • Cover of: Ojeada sobre América
    First published in 1983 1 edition

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  • Cover of: Paginas desconocidas.
    First published in 1969 1 edition

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
June 19, 2017 Edited by Ecuador4theWorld Edited without comment.
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March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import