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VELEZ-HERRERA, Ramon (vay'-leth), Cuban author, born in Havana in 1808; died there in 1887. He was left an orphan when in childhood, but was educated by his uncle, Desiderio Herrera, a learned man, author of various scientific works, and finished his studies in San Carlos seminary, Havana. In 1829 he was graduated in law, but he left this study to devote himself to literature. The first collection of his poems was published in one volume (Havana, 1833), a second in 1837, and a third in 1838. He also published "Elvira de Oquendo," a pastoral in verse (1840); " Los dos novios," a comedy (1843) ; " Flores de Otofio," a collection of poems (1849)" " Romances Cubanos " (1856); " Napoleon en Berlin," a tragedy (1860) ; and "Flores de invierno," poems (1882).
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