Domingo Rivero
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Domingo Rivero (23 March 1852 – 8 September 1929) was a Spanish poet from the Canary Islands.
Biography
[edit]He was born in Arucas on 23 March 1852, sone of Juan Rivero Bolaños and Rafaela María de San Félix.[1] He is linked to two other famous Canary Islanders on his mother's side, the poet Tomás Morales and the journalist and ecologist Francisco González Díaz.
In his childhood, he lived in Guía, the town where his father was born.
Studies
[edit]He studied at the Colegio San Agustín de La Palmas de Gran Canaria. In 1869, he was elected to the committee of the Young Republicans. After a brief period in Paris he moved to London in 1870, where he met Fermín Salvochea. From 1873 to 1881 he studied law in Madrid and Seville.
Work life
[edit]After his studies he returned to Las Palmas, and remained in the Canary Islands for the rest of his life. He gained the place of Relator of the National Audience of Las Palmas, and in 1904 became Secretary of the Government of Las Palmas until his retirement on 29 July 1921.
- ^ Padorno, Eugenio. "Achipielágo de las Letras, Domingo Rivero". Academia Canaria de las Letras. Academia Canaria de las Letras. Retrieved 23 May 2025.