Numa Pompilio Llona
Numa Pompilio Llona Echeverri (March 5, 1832 – April 5, 1907) was an Ecuadorian poet, journalist, educator, diplomat, and philosopher. Widely read in his time, but today he is mostly forgotten.
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- Name
- Numa Pompilio Llona Echeverri
- Born
- March 5, 1832
- Birthplace
- Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Occupation
- Poet, Diplomat
- Movement
- Romanticism
- Spouse
- Enriqueta Marchena y Bentín, Lastenia Larriva
- Died
- 1907 · Guayaquil.
- Nationality
- Ecuador · Peru
- Education
- National University of San Marcos
- Languages
- Spanish
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Numa Pompilio Llona Echeverri (March 5, 1832 – April 5, 1907) was an Ecuadorian poet, journalist, educator, diplomat, and philosopher. Widely read in his time, but today he is mostly forgotten.
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• Name — Numa Pompilio Llona Echeverri • Born — March 5, 1832 • Birthplace — Guayaquil, Ecuador • Place of death — Guayaquil, Ecuador • Occupation — Poet, Diplomat • Movement — Romanticism • Spouse — Enriqueta Marchena y Bentín, Lastenia Larriva
Biography
Biography
His father was the Ecuadorian lawyer Dr. Manuel Leocadio de Llona y Rivera, and his mother was Mercedes Echeverri Llados from Colombia. Born in Guayaquil, Numa Pompilio Llona completed primary school in Cali, Colombia, and completed secondary school in Lima, Peru. He received a law degree at the Universidad San Marco in Lima, Peru.
Career
Career
From 1854 to 1859, Numa Pompilo Llona was the literary editor of the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio. In 1882 he was appointed the rector of the University of Guayaquil, where he held the professorship of aesthetics and general literature. He also served as a diplomat in Spain (1860–62), France, Italy (1864), and Colombia (1884), and formed friendships with many famous poets and writers of the time, such as Victor Hugo, George Sand, Alphonse de Lamartine, Cienfuegos Manzini, Núñez de Arce, Leopard and others. He was also the director of the Municipal Museum and Library of Guayaquil (1904 to 1907).
Marriage
Marriage
Numa Pompilio Llona was married to Enriqueta Marchena y Bentín, and after her death, married the Peruvian poet and journalist Lastenia Larriva.
Death
Death
Numa Pompilio Llona died on April 5, 1907. His remains are interred in crypt # 705-C in the Cementerio General of Guayaquil.
Literary works
Literary works
• Cien sonetos (1847) • Cien sonetos nuevos (1880) • Interrogaciones • Amor supremo • Himnos, dianas y elegías patrióticas y religiosas • De la penumbra a la Luz • Cantos americanos (1866) • Nuevas poesías • Artículos en rosa • Noches de dolor en las montañas (1872) • Cantos patrióticos y religiosos (1881) • Canto a la vida • La odisea del alma (1876) • Clamores de Occidente • Poemas amatorios y diversos (1882) • El gran enigma • Noche de dolor en las montañas • Grandeza moral • La bandera del ecuador • La estela de una vida (1893) • Los caballeros del Apocalipsis (1869)
Monumento a Numa Pompilio Llona en Las Peñas, en Guayaquil, Ecuador.
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José Joaquín de Olmedo and Numa Pompilio Llona, ecuadorian 19th Century poets.
Olmedo: El Universo (pintor desconocido). Llona: Unknown/not specified photographer · File:Jjolemdo.jpg, File:Numa Pompilio Llona1889.jpg
Legacy
One of Guayaquil’s most popular tourist attractions, the neighborhood Las Peñas has a street named after Numa Pompilio Llona. Many of this street’s 400-year-old houses have been converted into art galleries and several notable artists have studios there. There are also schools in Ecuador named after Numa Pompilio Llona.
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- 1.LLONA Y ECHEVERRI NUMA POMPILIO.
- 2.El rincón de la poesía ecuatoriana: "A don Fernando Velarde", por Numa Pompilio Llona.
- 3.Carta de Pablo Herrera a Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo. Quito, 13 junio 1885.
- 4.Historia de la poesia hispano-Americana.
- 5.Numa Pompilio Llona y el monumento 2 de mayo.
- 6.La mujer : Revista mensual de literatura y variedades.
- 7.Clamores del occidente: himnos, dianas y elegías, poesías patrióticas y religiosas de Numa P. Llona .
- 8.La editorial Garnier de París y la difusión del patrimonio bibliográfico en castellano en el siglo XIX.
- 9.Historia de la literatura ecuatoriana s. XIX 1800-1860. 978-9942-07-639-7.
- 10.El Incendio Grande M. I. Municipalidad de Guayaquil.
- 11.En Guayaquil se recuerda a Numa Pompilio Llona.
- 12.Estudios de Literatura Peruana: Carácter de la Literatura del Perú Independiente.
- 13.Historia del pensamiento filosófico latinoamericano. 978-84-9830-678-1.
- 14.Literatos ecuatorianos: Para los Colegios de segunda enseñanza.
- 15.Interrogaciones: Poemas filosóficos.
- 16.La estela de una vida: poemas líricos de Numa P. Llona.
- 17.El amor supremo.
- 18.RAE. Llona y Echeverri, Numa Pompilio (1832-1907).
- 19.Encantamientos patrios.
- 20.The Epic of Latin American.
- 21.Encantamientos patrios.
- 22.Parnaso ecuatoriano con apuntamientos biográficos de los poetas versificadores de la República del Ecuador desde el siglo XVII hasta el año de 1879.
- 23.Las bellas letras en el Ecuador.
- 24.Poetas románticos y neoclásicos.
- 25.Historia de la Literatura.
- 26.Siluetas líricas de poetas ecuatorianos.
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