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Cirilo Villaverde

Cuban author

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Latin American literature

  • Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo, Francisco Javier
    In Latin American literature: Romanticism

    …Customs), by the Cuban exile Cirilo Villaverde, perhaps the best Latin American novel of the 19th century. Villaverde’s only competition comes from two other novels named after their women protagonists: María (1867; María: A South American Romance), by the Colombian Jorge Isaacs, and Amalia (1851–55; Amalia: A Romance of the…

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