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	Mariano Arista Mariano Arista , 1802-55, Mexican general and president (1851-53). A royalist in the revolt against Spain, he later joined Agustín de Iturbide. He fought in the Mexican army that tried to put down the Texas revolt (1836). In command of the army in N Mexico in the Mexican War, he was defeated... Read more
	Mariano Azuela Mariano Azuela The Mexican novelist Mariano Azuela (1873-1952) initiated the novel of the Mexican Revolution, employing realism as a means of denouncing social injustices. Mariano Azuela was born on Jan. 1, 1873, in Lagos de Moreno, in the state of Jalisco, where he received his primary... Read more
	Mariano Moreno Moreno, Mariano (1778–1811) Argentine revolutionary. His study of the Enlightenment thinkers led him to challenge Spanish mercantilist policies in the Rio de la Plata region. In his Memorial of the Landowners, he argued for free trade in terms similar to those of Adam Smith. Although trade... Read more
	Mariano Matamoros Mariano Matamoros , d. 1814, Mexican revolutionist in the war against Spain. He was, like Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and José María Morelos y Pavón, a priest with liberal political opinions. Much harassed by the Spanish authorities after the outbreak of the revolution of 1810, he... Read more
	Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865-1958) was a Brazilian military man and Indianist. He explored much of the Brazilian interior and studied and helped the Indians of the region. Candido Rondon was born in Cuiab Read more
	Mariano Fortuny Mariano Fortuny , 1838-74, Spanish genre painter, etcher, and watercolorist. Sent to Morocco in 1859 to paint war scenes, he made many brilliant sketches of North African life. His canvases demonstrate his facility and vivid sense of the exotic. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, has his well-known... Read more
	Mariano Jose de Larra y Sanchez de Castro Figaro the central character, a barber turned valet who both assists and circumvents his master Count Almaviva, of The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784) by the French dramatist Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732–99); they inspired operas by Rossini and Mozart. Figaro... Read more
	Matamoros Matamoros city (1990 pop. 266,055), Tamaulipas state, NE Mexico, near the mouth of the Rio Grande, opposite Brownsville, Tex. Matamoros, linked by rail and highway with the United States, is an international trading center and a point of entry. The city is the center of an agricultural region that... Read more
	Rondonia Rondônia, Brazil Guaporé A state established as a territory in 1943 and renamed in 1956 after Marshal Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865–1958), an explorer who did much to protect the Native Americans by founding the Indian Protection Service in 1910. The territory was... Read more
	Stanislao Cannizzaro Cannizzaro, Stanislao (b. Palermo, Sicily, 13 July 1826; d. Rome, Italy, 10 May 1910), chemistry. Cannizzaro was the youngest of the ten children of Mariano Cannizzaro, a magistrate and minister of police in Palermo, and Anna di Benedetto, who came from a family of Sicilian noblemen. Sicily was... Read more