Almafuerte

Pedro Bonifacio Palacios, who signs Almafuerte, was born on 13 May 1854 in San Justo, in the province of Buenos Aires. His mother died early, his father abandoned him, and relatives raised him. With no scholarship to study painting in Europe, he turned to teaching and ran a school in Chacabuco; he was dismissed for lack of a diploma, then removed again in 1896, and lived in great poverty. He died in La Plata on 28 February 1917.

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• PoetryLamentacionesAlmafuerte · 1906not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain