Manuel de Zequeira dies in Havana

He was considered the first Cuban poet, not in the chronological sense -an honor reserved to Silvestre de Balboa- but symbolically, for his lyrical quality and vocation, and for his conscious knowledge of his poetic instrument. He recreated the decima giving it a more cultured treatment, without losing his natural grace.

Silvestre de Balboa

He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on July 30, 1563. In 1592 he took up residence in Cuba. In 1608 he wrote the first work of Cuban literature, his epic poem Espejo de Paciencia. It was written in Sicilian octaves and published fully for the first time in the second edition of the Cuban Bibliography of the 17th and 18th centuries. The poem narrates the kidnapping of Bishop Cabezas de Altamirano by corsairs.

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