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Joaquín Acadio Pagaza y Ordóñez was a Mexican ecclesiastic, writer and translator, born 6 January, 1839 in
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Joaquín Acadio Pagaza y Ordóñez was a Mexican ecclesiastic, writer and translator, born 6 January, 1839 in Valle de Bravo
Valle de Bravo () is one of 125 municipalities in State of Mexico, Mexico. The largest town and municipal seat is the town of Valle de Bravo. It is located on the shore of Lake Avándaro, approximately 156 km (97 miles) southwest of Mexico ...
, died 15 July 1918 in Xalapa
Xalapa or Jalapa (, ), officially Xalapa-Enríquez (), is the capital city of the Mexican state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality. In the 2005 census the city reported a population of 387,879 and the municipality of which ...
.
Life and work
Pagaza was ordained in 1864 and served in various capacities until he was made bishop ofVeracruz
Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...
in 1895, an appointment he held until his death in 1918. He had written poetry since the start of his studies and was nominated to the Mexican Academy of Letters in 1882. He was noted for his versions of Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 7021 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: t ...
and Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...
, as well as for his three collections of original poems: ''Murmurios de la selva'' (Jungle rustling, 1887); ''María'' (fragments of a descriptive poem of the torrid zone, 1890}; ''Algunas trovas últimas'' (Last verses, 1893). His sonnets especially celebrate the distinctive tropical landscape of Veracruz.
On the centenary of Pagaza's birth, a bronze plaque was placed on his birthplace honouring him as cleric, poet and translator and a museum dedicated to him was opened in 1964./ref>
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from a 1920 anthology] * 2 poems translated by
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...
in ''Anthology of Mexican Poetry'', Indiana University Press (1958), pp. 104-5
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1839 births
1918 deaths
Mexican Roman Catholic bishops
19th-century Mexican poets
Mexican translators
People from the State of Mexico