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Author · Uruguay

Florencio Sánchez

Died in 1910

Florencio Sánchez was born on 17 January 1875 in Montevideo, the eldest of a large family that settled in Treinta y Tres and then in Minas, where he studied. He wrote for the press from the age of fifteen, then worked as a journalist in Montevideo, Rosario and Buenos Aires. In 1897 he joined Aparicio Saravia's revolution, then turned away from it and grew closer to the anarchists. Already suffering from tuberculosis, he left for Europe in 1909, tasked with representing Uruguay at an art exhibition in Rome. He died in a hospital in Milan on 7 November 1910; his remains were brought back to Montevideo in 1921.

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