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Felix María del Monte (November 19, 1819 – April 23, 1899) was a Dominican poet, playwright, journalist, orator, politician and teacher. He participated in the independence struggles that culminated with the proclamation of the Dominican Republic.
Zoilo Cajigas Sotomayor (June 28, 1858 – 1962) was a Puerto Rican santero, a folk artist who makes religious statuettes of saints and biblical figures known as santos. He was known for his piety and adherence to traditional Hispanic folk art methods. Many examples of his work exist in the Museo de los Santos de Palo in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Pedro Francisco Bonó. The first novel written by a Dominican was El montero (published in Paris, France in 1856), by Pedro Francisco Bonó, although some literary historians argue that the first Dominican novel is Los amores de los indios (published in Havana, Cuba in 1843) by Alejandro Angulo Guridi or even Cecilia, by the same author, which, although published incomplete in the Sunday ...
José Rufino Reyes y Siancas was born in Santo Dominigo, Dominican Republic, on November 15, 1836. He was the son of Rafael Reyes, a poor retailer, and María Merced Siancas. [3] Reyes had two siblings, Manuel María Reyes Siancas (born 1821), and Francisco Reyes Siancas. [4] Reyes had no formal education and was raised in cottage dwelling ...
Fernando Cabrera en Los Nuevos Canibales: Antologia de la mas reciente poesia del Caribe Hispano. Santo Domingo, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Ediciones Union, Vol. II, 2003. Pena, Jose Alejandro. Las pelucas Delirantes: la poesia de la Generacion de los Ochenta dominicana. Estados Unidos: Sociedad Internacional de Escritores, 2006. Geron, Candido ...
Luis Desangles was born on 8 February 1861 in Santo Domingo to Juan Pedro Desangles, a native of the Pyrenees region in France living in the country since the 1830s and Teresa Sibilly, who was born in Curaçao to French parents, with whom he had four children: Epifanio (1858), Luis (1861), Pedro Nicolás (1863) and María Ana (1865). [6]
President Emilio de los Santos — 26 September 1963 23 December 1963 88 days Military: Members: Emilio de los Santos (President), Manuel Enrique Tavares Espaillat, Ramón Tapia Espinal. Triumvirate under President Donald Reid Cabral — 23 December 1963 25 April 1965 1 year, 123 days Military
Bust of María Baltasara de los Reyes in the Parque Independencia, Santo Domingo. María Baltasara de los Reyes y Bustamante (January 6, 1798 – 1867) was a Dominican revolutionary who had an important role in the independence movement of the Dominican Republic, She was the first woman to take up arms in the Dominican War of Independence.