BOBADILLA 



EMILIO DE BOBADILLA 



(Fray Candil) 



Critic; poet; novelist. 



Emilio de Bobadilla, widely known by 

 the pseudonym Fray Candil, was born in 

 the city of Cardenas, Cuba, in 1872. His 

 father, Don Jose Sixto de Bobadilla, a 

 descendant of the Spanish Knight, Fran- 

 cisco de Bobadilla who carried Columbus 

 to Spain in chains in 1500, was an attorney 

 well known in Havana in his day and a pro- 

 fessor in the Law Department of the Uni- 

 versity. He desired that his son should 

 study law and succeed to his practice and 

 prestige; but the boy's bent was totally 

 different. 



As a youth of fifteen or sixteen, a student 

 in the University of Havana, young Boba- 

 dilla felt an irresistible attraction toward 

 literature as a career; and began writing 



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