Ambrogi, Arturo (1875–1936)

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Ambrogi, Arturo (1875–1936)

Arturo Ambrogi (b. 19 October 1875; d. 8 November 1936), Salvadoran writer. Born in San Salvador, the son of an Italian-born Salvadoran army general, Ambrogi edited several literary reviews in San Salvador in the 1890s before traveling widely in South America, where he was much influenced by intellectuals in Chile and Uruguay, particularly by Rubén Darío in Buenos Aires. He became one of the leading Salvadoran modernist and impressionist writers of the early twentieth century, especially with his lyrical Manchas, máscaras y sensaciones (1901) and Sensaciones crepusculares (1904), El libro del trópico (1907), El tiempo que pasa (1913), and Sensaciones del Japón y de la China (1915). His frequent travels throughout the world are strongly reflected in his work, which also contains much folklore.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arturo Ambrogi, Marginales de la vida (1912).

José Gómez Campos, Semblanzas salvadoreñas (1930).

Luis Gallegos Valdés, Panorama de la literatura salvadoreña del período precolombino a 1980 (1987), esp. pp. 115-130.

Additional Bibliography

Barraza Arriola, Marco Antonio. Antología de escritores del istmo centroamericano. San Tecla: Clásicos Roxsil, 1999.

                              Ralph Lee Woodward Jr.