Eladio Vergara y Vergara

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Eladio Vergara y Vergara (1821–1888) was a Colombian writer, historian, chronicler and cultural administrator of the nineteenth century.[1] He is best known for his work on colombia historial and literary institutions, his works on the Capilla del Sagrario de Bogotá and the epic poem "Guerra de Neo-Granada" first introduced in the political magazine "La Matricaria" created by prestigious writer Jose Maria Vergara y Vergara, his brother.

He was the son of Ignacio Manuel de Vergara, who preceded him as mayordomo-tesorero of the Capilla del Sagrario. Vergara belonged to a prominent New Granadan family deeply embedded in ecclesiastical, cultural, and intellectual life since the colonial period.

He received a classical education typical of Bogotá´s learned elites in the mid-nineteenth century, grounded in latin and ecclesiastical history and large colonial archives.[2]

Eladio was also related by blood to General Tomas Cipriano de Mosquera.[3] Served Colombia as Secretary of Finance of the State of Cauca [4][5]

Work

  • Participated in the political newspaper "El Semanario" of general Mosquera.
  • Guerra de Neo-Granada
  • El Mudo[6]
  • El Misionero. Drama tradicional en tres actos [and in verse]. 1851[7]
  • Capilla del Sagrario de Bogotá[8]
  • El Oidor de Santa Fe, Roland o Bandido de San Lotario y Misionero[9]
  • Comic ¿Cuál Gobierno?

References

  1. 1.Hart, Stephen M. (2007). A Companion to Latin American Literature. ISBN 9781855661479.
  2. 2.Vergara y Vergara, Eladio. La Capilla del Sagrario de Bogotá. Bogotá, siglo XIX.
  3. 3.Cause against the president of the United States of Colombia: citizen great general Tomas Cipriano de Mosquera, and other high federal officials.... (1867). Colombia: Printing of the nation.
  4. 4.José Agustín Blanco Barros / Obras completas Tomo IV – Geografía histórica. (2018). Colombia: Universidad del Norte. Page 343
  5. 5.Castro-Gómez, Santiago (2004). Pensar el siglo XIX: cultura, biopolítica y modernidad en Colombia (in Spanish). Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. ISBN 978-1-930744-20-2.
  6. 6.Williams, R. L. (2010). The Colombian Novel, 1844-1987. United States: University of Texas Press.
  7. 7.VERGARA, E. (1851). El Misionero. Drama tradicional en tres actos [and in verse]. Por E. V.. Colombia: (n.p.).
  8. 8.Vergara y Vergara, E., Henao, J. M. (1886). Capilla del Sagrario de Bogotá. Colombia: editor no identificado.
  9. 9.Héctor M Ardila A (1998). Hombres y mujeres en las letras de Colombia. ISBN 9789582002077.