Nataniel Aguirre [SEP] place of death
Nataniel Aguirre
Nataniel Aguirre (Cochabamba, Bolivia, October 10, 1843 – Montevideo, Uruguay, September 11, 1888), was a prominent Bolivian lawyer, diplomat, politician, writer, and historian. Menéndez y Pelayo considers his novel "Juan de la Rosa" the best 19th century novel in Spanish America.
Early life.
Born in the Hacienda de Huayllani, in the department of Cochabamba, the fourth of five children, he was the son of the financier and Bolivian politician Miguel María de Aguirre and
Juan de la Rosa (novel)
Juan de la Rosa: Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement is a book by the writer Nataniel Aguirre about the Bolivian War of Independence, published in 1885.
The novel is told from the perspective of an aged revolutionary reminiscing over the outbreak of insurrection against the Spanish Empire in Bolivia. It was one of the first major works of Bolivian literature.