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Cirilo Villaverde (Cuban poet, writer and journalist)

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Villaverde, Cirilo
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Date of birth
1812-10-28
Place of birth
Cuba
Date of death
1894-10-24
Place of death
New York

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Cirilo Villaverde de la Paz (28 October 1812 – 24 October 1894) was a Cuban poet, novelist, journalist and freedom fighter. He is best known for Cecilia Valdés, a novel about classes and races in colonial Cuba.

When the poet Miguel Teurbe Tolón's wife, sewed the first flag of Cuba, Villaverde helped settle upon the final design: two white stripes, three blue, a red triangle, and a lone star.

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