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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Julio Arboleda (1817–1862)

Arboleda, Julio (är-bō-lā’THä). A South American poet, orator, journalist, and revolutionist; born in Colombia, June 9, 1817; died on Nov. 12, 1862. Having assumed the supreme power in New Granada, he was assassinated. He was one of the best-known poets of Spanish-America. Of his principal work ‘Gonzalo of Oyón,’ only such parts as happened to exist in duplicate were published, the manuscript having been destroyed by a bitter personal enemy.