VICTORINO ABENTE Y LAGO
LAMBERT M. SURHONE, MARIAM T. TENNOE, SUSAN F. HENSSONOW
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Was born in Mugia, Spain, June 2, 1846.
He went to Paraguay when resentments of the War Against the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) were still fresh.
In spite of being Galician, his life and work identifies with the Paraguay since the very moment of his arrival in march of 1869, when the Brazilian and Argentine troops occupied the country.
He was related with the second stage of the Paraguayan romanticism that begun after the War Against the Triple Alliance, and even with the post-romanticism.
Also collaborated with many journals of the capital, where he published many of his own poetries.
His poems were dedicated to the renaissance of the nation, being properly known as the "poet of the national resurrection."
A few months before his decease could watch his country victorious in the war against Bolivia between 1932 and 1935.
