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Pedro Bonifacio Palacios (13 May 1854 – 28 February 1917), better known by his sobriquet Almafuerte, was an Argentine poet.

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Biography

Palacios was born in San Justo, a western suburb of Buenos Aires, into a humble family. As a boy he lost his mother and was abandoned by his father, and because of this was raised by his relatives.

His first career was as a painter, but, because the government denied him a grant to travel to Europe, he changed direction and dedicated himself to writing and teaching. At 16 years of age, he was appointed director of a school in then-rural Chacabuco.

After meeting former President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento in 1884, he was dismissed as school director for not possessing a teaching degree, though this was arguably because his poems were highly critical of the government^{[citation needed]}. He was, however, elected to the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies, and later worked as a librarian and translator for the Provincial Statistical Bureau. In 1887, he moved to La Plata and was taken in as a journalist at the newspaper El Pueblo.

In 1894 he renewed his teaching activities at a school near Trenque Lauquen, but two years later was once again withdrawn for political reasons.

At the start of the 20th century, he began participating briefly in active politics, but because of his unstable economic situation and his refusal to accept a political position, he did not do it with much enthusiasm.

At the end of his life, the Argentine National Congress granted him a pension so he could dedicate himself in full to his poetry. However, his health had deteriorated, and he died on 28 February 1917 in La Plata, capital of the Province of Buenos Aires, at the age of 63.

Literary work

Palacios published some works under various pseudonyms, the most well known of which was Almafuerte.

• Evangélicas (1915)
• Lamentaciones (1906)
• Poesías (1917)
• Nuevas Poesías (1918)
• Milongas clásicas, sonetos medicinales y Dios te salve. Discursos (1919)
• La inmortal
• El misionero
• Trémolo
• Cantar de los cantares
• La sombra de la patria

See also

• Almafuerte, a 1949 Argentine film dramatized the life of Palacios

External links

• Media related to Pedro Bonifacio Palacios at Wikimedia Commons
•  Spanish Wikisource has original text related to this article: Pedro Bonifacio Palacios
•  Spanish Wikiquote has quotations related to: Pedro Bonifacio Palacios
• Pedro Bonifacio Palacios at Find a Grave

На других языках

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- [en] Pedro Bonifacio Palacios

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[es] Pedro Bonifacio Palacios

Pedro Bonifacio Palacios (La Matanza, 13 de mayo de 1854 - La Plata, 28 de febrero de 1917), conocido también por el seudónimo de Almafuerte, fue un maestro y poeta argentino, considerado como uno de los «cinco sabios» de la ciudad de La Plata, junto a Florentino Ameghino, Juan Vucetich, Alejandro Korn y Carlos Spegazzini.

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[fr] Almafuerte

Pedro Bonifacio Palacios, dit Almafuerte (San Justo en Argentine le 13 mai 1854, La Plata en Argentine le 28 février 1917) est un poète argentin cité par Jorge Luis Borges dans son Livre de préfaces (1975). Le texte de référence a pour titre Prose et poésie d'Almafuerte (1962) et commente quelques dizaines de vers des poèmes :

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[ru] Альмафуэрте

Альмафуэ́рте, буквально – Сильный духом, псевдоним Пéдро Бонифáсио Палáсиоса (исп. Almafuerte, Pedro Bonifacio Palacios, 13 мая 1854, Сан-Хусто, провинция Буэнос-Айрес – 28 февраля 1917, Ла-Плата) – аргентинский поэт и журналист.

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