Biography of Juan Montalvo

His father and grandfather were merchants, although his mother, Delia Fiallos owned some land, two elder brothers of Juan moved to Quito and came to occupy high positions in education and government.

Although Juan Montalvo went to the University, did not get a title, then dabbled in politics, taking on liberal ideas that led him to be part of the international cortez paris and then becoming one of the biggest opponents of Gabirel Garcia Moreno, Conservative leader at the time.

In January 1866 Quito Montalvo published in the first number of a pamphlet series against García Moreno - then out of power - under the title of The Cosmopolitan. Three years later, on the dictator's return to the presidency, Montalvo fled to Colombia, settling in Ipiales.

His liberal ideas became dangerous for Garcia Moreno who led him to be exiled in Panama where he was held by another liberal leader, Eloy Alfaro, When the Latter Decided to stay as president for a third term, Montalvo wrote perpetual dictatorship, que Alfaro published in Panama (1874, but Garcia Moreno was murderer, Juan Montalvo made his sentence hold my pen killed him.

he Returned to Quito in 1876 to publish “el regenerador” against Antonio Borrego, generals coup Veintimila Ignatius and Jose Maria Urbina, whom objected because the revolt was used by them to seize power in a despotic Before long, Montalvo was back in Ipiales, where I wrote his “Catilinarias”. This attack on Veintemilla is Montalvo's outstanding polemical work.

In 1881 Montalvo returned to Paris. I stayed there for the remainder of his life, except for a trip in 1883 to Spain, where I was very well received by distinguished figures of Spanish letters and politics. This last period was marked by the publication of his best works: Seven treaties and Chapters which he forgot to Cervantes. He died on Jan. 17, 1889.

Montalvo is a person for which his political ideas and his convictions led him to be persecuted and abandoned