Bello and Bolivar

By Antonio Cussen

In June 1810, the Venezuelans, fearful of French aggression, sent a diplomatic mission to London in search of an ally. The mission was headed by S?mon Bol?var; the secretary was Andres Bello. Bello remained in London through the Spanish American Revolution and became one of the most accomplished members of the Spanish-speaking intelligentsia. In this book, Antonio Cussen reconstructs Andres Bello's account of the Revolution. The official history of the Revolution, the heroic history of Bol?var, is replaced by the account of a poet, who was first Bol?var's teacher, and later his critic. Through a detailed study of the manuscripts of Bello's unfinished poem Am?rica the author argues that Bello recorded the disintegration of the Augustan model of power and culture and intimated the inevitable approach of liberalism with a certain longing for the classical culture of his youth.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052141248X
• ISBN13: 9780521412483
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"