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Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Basilio (; 13 November 1834 – 13 February 1893) was a Mexican radical
Altamirano was born in 
He died in San Remo, Italy, in 1893.
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Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Basilio (; 13 November 1834 – 13 February 1893) was a Mexican radical liberal
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writer, journalist, teacher and politician. He wrote ''Clemencia'' (1869), which is often considered to be the first modern Mexican novel.
Biography
Altamirano was born in Tixtla
Tixtla (formally, Tixtla de Guerrero ) is a town and seat of the Tixtla de Guerrero Municipality in the Mexican state of Guerrero.
The name is Nahuatl, and means either "maize dough" ''(masa) ''from ''textli;'' "our valley" from ''to ixtla;'' ...
, Guerrero
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, of indigenous Chontal heritage. His father was the mayor of Tixtla, this allowed Ignacio to attend school there. He later studied in Toluca
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thanks to a scholarship that was granted him by Ignacio Ramírez, of whom he was a disciple.
As a liberal politician, Altamirano opposed Benito Juárez
Benito Pablo Juárez García (; 21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872) was a Mexican liberal politician and lawyer who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in office in 1872. As a Zapotec, he was the first indigenous pre ...
's continuation in office in 1861, allying himself with other liberal foes of Juárez and supporting Jesús González Ortega. With the French invasion of Mexico in 1862, Altamirano understood how dire the situation was for Mexico, since unlike the U.S. invasion (1846–48), which united Mexicans against the invader, the French were supported by Mexican conservatives. His best-known novel is ''El Zarco
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'', which is set in Yautepec, Morelos
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during the Reform War
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of 1857–1860. It tells the story of an honorable and courageous Indian blacksmith who falls in love with a haughty village girl, only to have her elope with the cold-blooded bandit, "Zarco Blue Eyes."
He founded several newspapers and magazines including ''El Correo de México'' ("The Mexico Post"), ''El Renacimiento'' ("The Renaissance") (1869), ''El Federalista'' ("The Federalist"), ''La Tribuna'' ("The Tribune") and ''La República'' ("The Republic").
Altamirano was president of the Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística
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(Mexican Society for Geography and Statistics) from 1881 to 1889. He was also public prosecutor, magistrate and president of the Supreme Court, as well as senior officer of the Ministry of Public Works and the Economy.
He died in San Remo, Italy, in 1893.
Bibliography
*''La literatura nacional'' (1849) *''Clemencia'' (1869), Ed.Elibros, ebook. *''Crónicas de la semana'' (1869) *''La Navidad en las montañas'' (1871), ebook, Ed.Elibros ISBN CDLPG00010825 *''Antonia'' (1872) *''Beatriz'' (1873) *''Atenea'' *''Cuentos de invierno'' (1880) *''Rimas'' (1880) *''El Zarco'' (written 1885–1889, published 1901), Ed. Siglo XXI, México. (posthumous) *''Paisajes y leyendas, tradiciones y costumbres de México'' (1886) *''Obras'' (1899)Further reading
*Nacci, Chris N. ''Ignacio Manuel Altamirano''. New York: Twayne Publishers 1970.See also
*List of people from Morelos, Mexico
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References
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* * * * The audiobook ''Clemencia'' can be downloaded fro{{DEFAULTSORT:Altamirano, Ignacio Manuel 19th-century Mexican writers Liberalism in Mexico Mexican male novelists 19th-century Mexican poets Mexican male poets Writers from Guerrero Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Mexican jurists Mexican diplomats 19th-century Mexican journalists Male journalists Mexican soldiers Nahua people 1893 deaths 1834 births 19th-century Mexican novelists 19th-century male writers