F I G ARO L A 



DOMINGO FIGAROLA-CANEDA 



Librarian; editor; author. 



Domingo Figarola-Caneda was born 

 in Havana on the seventeenth of January, 

 1852. He completed the courses leading 

 to the Bachelor's degree and at an early- 

 age entered upon a literary career, working 

 as a journalist-contributor, editor, and cor- 

 respondent on various newspapers among 

 them El Triunfo, El Pais, and La Lucha. 



In 1876 he founded, in Havana, El Mer- 

 curio which he published until the following 

 year. In 1883 he founded El Argnmento 

 which had a brief career in Havana. In 

 1885 he founded La Ilustracion Cuban a 

 in Barcelona and directed it until 1887. 

 In Paris he founded and published La 

 Repilblica Cubana, 1896-1897. Finally 

 he founded La Revista de la Biblioteca 

 Nacional in Havana. 



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