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41 Paula Street, Havana, birthplace of José Martí A sign at the Miracle del Mocadoret square, Valencia (Spain) where José Martí spent his childhood. José Julián Martí Pérez was born on January 28, 1853, in Havana, at 41 Paula Street, to Spanish parents, a Valencian father, Mariano Martí Navarro, and Leonor Pérez Cabrera, a native of the Canary Islands.
José Martí. José Martí was an unofficial chronicler of the First International American Conference (Washington, United States, 1890) During his exile (1880–1895) in the United States, Martí came to know and understand his hosts well, and grew increasingly adept at interpreting their actions and words to his Latin American brothers.
José Martí died fighting in the battle of Dos Ríos (near Palma Soriano).He was leading a group of rebels against the Spanish royalist army in the first skirmish in Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain (see History of Cuba).
In 1895, Marti wrote and signed the Manifesto de Montecristi along with Máximo Gómez, outlining what he hoped would become Cuba’s declaration of independence, setting Cuba free from Spanish rule, as well as improving the economy and bringing equality to the country.
Ivan Albert Schulman (October 4, 1931 – August 3, 2020) [1] was Professor Emeritus of Spanish & Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois. [2] He was a major scholar of Spanish American Modernismo and the leading US scholar of the works of José Martí .
The Cuban War of Independence came seventeen years after the end of the unsuccessful Ten Years War, also considered the first war of Cuban Independence.As a result of that war there was a rise in political corruption, high taxes for Cuba's citizens, and lack of political representation.
María García Granados y Saborío (1860 – May 10, 1878), also known as La Niña de Guatemala ("The Girl of Guatemala"), was a Guatemalan socialite, daughter of General Miguel García Granados, who was President of Guatemala from 1871 to 1873 and whose house served as a gathering for the top artists and writers of the time.
Simple Verses (Spanish: Versos sencillos) is a poetry collection by Cuban writer and independence hero José Martí. Published in October 1891, it was the last of Martí's works to be printed before his death in 1895. [1] Originally written in Spanish, it has been translated into over ten languages. [2]