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Alfonsina Storni
Alfonsina Storni (22 May 1892 – 25 October 1938) was an Argentine poet and playwright of the modernist period. Early life Storni was born on May 29, 1892 in Sala Capriasca, Switzerland. Her parents were Alfonso Storni and Paola Martignoni, who were of Italian-Swiss descent. Before her birth, her father had started a brewery in the city of San Juan, Argentina, producing beer and soda. In 1891, following the advice of a doctor, he returned with his wife to Switzerland, where Alfonsina was born the following year; she lived there until she was four years old. In 1896 the family returned to San Juan, and a few years later, in 1901, moved to Rosario because of economic issues. There her father opened a tavern, where Storni did a variety of chores. That family business soon failed, however. Storni wrote her first verse at the age of twelve, and continued writing verses during her free time. She later entered into the Colegio de la Santa Union as a part-time student. In 1906, her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sala Capriasca
Sala Capriasca is a village and former municipality in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. In 2001 the municipality was merged with the other, neighboring municipalities Cagiallo, Lopagno, Roveredo, Tesserete and Vaglio to form a new and larger municipality Capriasca.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 14 January 2010 History Sala Capriasca is first mentioned in 1078 as ''Sale''. In 1467 it was mentioned as ''Salla''. Sala Capriasca was originally a Lombard walled village. In the 15th century, it formed a ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfonsina Storni - 24 Años De Edad
Alfonsina may refer to: * Alfonsina (given name) * ''Alfonsina'' (film), 1957 Argentine film * Alfonsina's Airstrip, Mexican airstrip See also * * * Alfonsín (other) *Alfonsine, Italian comune *Alfonsino The alfonsino (''Beryx decadactylus''), also known as the alfonsin, longfinned beryx, red bream, or imperador, is a species of deepwater berycid fish of the order Beryciformes. It can be found in temperate and subtropical ocean waters nearly wo ..., species of fish * Alfonsine tables, astronomical table {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berta Singerman
Berta Singerman Begun ( be, Берта Сінгерман; 9 September 1901 – 10 December 1998), better known as Berta Singerman, was a Belarusian- Argentine singer and actress. Biography Singerman was born in Minsk, then part of the Russian Empire into a Jewish family. She emigrated to Argentina with her parents when she was a little girl. From a young age, she performed dramatic works with her siblings and neighbours that she was responsible for directing. When she was eight she joined a company that made melodramas in Yiddish, and when she was ten years old she joined a cast that performed works of August Strindberg. At age 15, Singerman married Rubén Enrique Stolek, who became her manager and set her on a career of literary declamation. Her connections with highly regarded literary figures, including poet Alfonsina Storni and writer Horacio Quiroga, helped propel this career into international fame, and she was befriended by numerous writers and artists, including Pablo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Hicken
Ricardo is the Spanish and Portuguese cognate of the name Richard. It derived from Proto-Germanic ''*rīks'' 'king, ruler' + ''*harduz'' 'hard, brave'. It may be a given name, or a surname. People Given name *Ricardo de Araújo Pereira, Portuguese comedian *Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer *Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist *Ricardo Ávila, Panamanian footballer * Ricardo Bralo, Argentine long-distance runner * Ricardo Bueno Fernández, Spanish politician *Ricardo Busquets, Puerto Rican swimmer * Ricardo Cardeno, Colombian triathlete *Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer *Ricardo Cortez, American actor *Ricardo Darín, Argentine actor * Ricardo (footballer, born 1980), full name Ricardo da Silva, Cape Verdean-Portuguese footballer *Ricardo Faty, Senegalese footballer *Ricardo Fischer, Brazilian basketball player *Ricardo Fortaleza, Filipino-Australian boxer *Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican football (soccer) player * Ricardo A. "Rick" Galindo, American politician *Ricardo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amparo De Hieken
Amparo, a Portuguese and Spanish word meaning ''refuge'', ''shelter'', or ''protection'', may refer to: People *Amparo (name) *Amparo people, Afro-Cuban descendants of Angola Places Brazil *Amparo, São Paulo *Amparo, Paraíba * Amparo do Serra, Minas Gerais *Amparo de São Francisco, Sergipe *Santo Antônio do Amparo, Minas Gerais Other places *Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico *Amparo High School, Caloocan, Philippines Other uses *Amparo (film), a 2022 Colombian drama film * Massacre of El Amparo, the killing of 14 fishermen in El Amparo, Venezuela in 1988 *'' Megachile amparo'', a bee of family Megachilidae *''Recurso de amparo'' or writ of amparo, a form of constitutional relief found in the legal systems of some countries *Roman Catholic Diocese of Amparo The Roman Catholic Diocese of Amparo ( la, Dioecesis Amparensis) is a diocese located in the city of Amparo in the Ecclesiastical province of Campinas in Brazil. History * December 23, 1997: Established as Diocese of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilia Bertolé
Emilia Bertolé or Ignacio Bertolé (1896–1949) was an Argentinian poet and painter. Life Bertolé was born in Rosario on 21 June 1896. She studied with the Italian teacher Mateo Casella at the Institute of Fine Arts "Doménico Morelli". She continued her painting and in 1912 she joined an exhibition with Erminio Blotta, Alfredo Guido, Manuel Musto, César Caggiano, Gustavo Cochet. left, Self portrait In 1927 she was the first woman to have her painting exhibited at the May Salon of the Santa Fe Museum "Rosa Galisteo Rodriguez". Her painting "Clarity" was of a woman looking thoughtful and it was bought by the museum. In 1929 Bertolé created three portraits of ex-President Hipólito Yrigoyen. The Uruguayan writer, Horacio Quiroga, led the Anaconda group and Bertolé became a member together with Ana Weiss de Rossi, Amparo de Hieken, Ricardo Hicken, Berta Singerman and Alfonsina Storni Alfonsina Storni (22 May 1892 – 25 October 1938) was an Argentine poet and pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horacio Quiroga
Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 – 19 February 1937) was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, used the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states, a skill he gleaned from Edgar Allan Poe, according to some critics. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar. Biography Early life Horacio Quiroga was born in the city of Salto in 1878 as the sixth child and second son of Prudencio Quiroga and Pastora Forteza, a middle-class family. At the time of his birth, his father had been working for 18 years as head of the Argentine Vice-Consulate. Before Quiroga was two and a half months old, on March 14, 1879, his father accidentally fired a gun he was carrying in his hands and died as a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana De Ibarbourou
Juana Fernández Morales de Ibarbourou, also known as Juana de América, (March 8, 1892 – July 15, 1979) was a Uruguayan poet and one of the most popular poets of Spanish America. Her poetry, the earliest of which is often highly erotic, is notable for her identification of her feelings with nature around her. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. Biography She was born Juana Fernández Morales on March 8, 1892, in Melo, Cerro Largo, Uruguay. The date of Juana's birth is often given as March 8, 1895, but according to a local state civil registry signed by two witnesses, the year was actually 1892. Juana began studies at the José Pedro Varela school in 1899 and moved to a religious school the following year, and two public schools afterwards. In 1909, at 17 years old, she published a prose piece, "Derechos femeninos" (women's rights), beginning a lifelong career as a prominent feminist. She married Captain Lucas Ibarbourou Trillo (1879-1942) in a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is part of the Southern Cone region of South America. Uruguay covers an area of approximately and has a population of an estimated 3.4 million, of whom around 2 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Montevideo. The area that became Uruguay was first inhabited by groups of hunter–gatherers 13,000 years ago. The predominant tribe at the moment of the arrival of Europeans was the Charrúa people, when the Portuguese first established Colónia do Sacramento in 1680; Uruguay was colonized by Europeans late relative to neighboring countries. The Spanish founded Montevideo as a military stronghold in the early 18th century bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
