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Dolores Veintimilla de Galindo

Dolores Veintimilla de Galindo (Quito, July 12, 1829 - Cuenca, May 23, 1857) was an Ecuadorian poet.

During her short life she was the creator of poems of romantic court that are loaded with those elements that associate the woman with the role of victim: sadness, yearning for the past, a frustrated love, pessimism, etc. His poem Complaints is full of those feelings. The failure in his marriage to the Colombian physician Sixto Galindo. As well as his thought advanced to the time, they would mark the personality and the later works of Dolores. All his life he faced machismo. Persecution and misunderstanding of the cuencana society led to suicide.
The firsts years
Born in 1829, daughter of José Veintimilla and Jerónima Carrión and Antepara, wealthy residents in Quito was a poet and writer
In 1837, he began his studies at the "Bianka Ecu10" School, which operated in the building of the beguinage under the direction. From there he went to the school that the Dominican mothers held in the Convent of St. Catherine of Siena, where he learned to read Writing, doctrine and catechism, and some farms in which the nuns were expert, such as embroidering, weaving, sewing, cooking.
Gets married

She gave birth to a son whom she called Santiago, being godmother Rosa Ascázubi, García Moreno's first wife. Shortly afterwards Dr. Galindo traveled to Guayaquil called by his conquered Colonel Sebastián Medina, married to Josefina Veintimilla, Dolores's only sister; So the marriage and his tender child settled in the main port.
At the age of 18, she married in Quito with Dr. Sixto Antonio Galindo y Oroña, a physician from New Granada. The dowry of marriage was stipulated in 5,000 pesos that were given to him by the bride. He was responsible for making him continue his literary education allowing the reading of all kinds of books to which the colony had banned for various reasons.
Become a mother

From this time are two compositions "To Carmen, sending a jasmine of the cape" and "To the same friend" both addressed to Carmen Perez Antepara, poetess; And a good part of his poetry that translates "the dissatisfaction of a heart that was not loved to the measure of what he loved" and for that reason wrote "Complaints", "Sufferings", "Aspiration", "Desire" and "Dislike" within Of the romantic genre so in vogue at the time.


Move to live in Cuenca

In May 1854 she moved to Cuenca with her husband and son, renting an apartment at the house of Josefa Ordóñez, then her husband traveled to Central America called by some countrymen, hoping to improve their profession of doctor, leaving her alone And among strange people; But he will not forget it, in such a way that monthly he remitted money to him through the house Commercial "Road" of Guayaquil. Why did Galindo leave her in Cuenca and not in the port where she had her sister married or in Quito with her mother? In both places Dolores had been well accompanied and cared for. Did not Dr. Galindo take his political family?
Another important aspect in the behavior of this Colombian is that he was never long in a certain place. Would he be an unstable emotional, a dromomaniac or just an adventurer? These questions and still others are not answered by the documents.

The truth is that Dolores began an active and intellectual life in Cuenca surrounded by honest young people and old people, all writers and poets, whom he received in his apartment and with whom he chatted and read in innocent had. Among the young people who visited her were Antonio Merchán y García, Tomás Rendón Solano, Manuel A. Toral, Luis Muñoz, León Morales y Vítores, and among the elderly, Dr. Vicente Salazar y Lozano, who died a few months later. "Necrological Note" by Dolores, friend of her daughters. Also Dr. Benigno Malo, Dr. Mariano Cueva, Miguel Angel Corral and Francisco Eugenio Tamariz, that is to say, the most appreciated of the society and the Morlaca intellectuality.


Witness of execution and beginning of a dispute

In the "Literary Album" of Dolores, Benigno Malo wrote: "I limit myself to estimate in you the friend, the Ecuadorian who recalls certain noble traits of Penelope. I prefer virtue to beauty and genius. Would heaven prefer to earth? " This phrase is the best certificate of his conduct coming from such an illustrious republic. And a few months went by, but one day her landlady was upset with her-perhaps because of the delay in rent payments-and ordered the furniture to be put out. Dolores changed to a second floor in the house of Josefa Peñafiel located in the same street "Bolivar", happening then the execution of an indigenous person named Tiburcio Lucero, accused of the crime of parricide. It was April 20, 1857, and Lucero was escorted, covered in a white robe stained with red, crucifix in hand and surrounded by several priests reciting prayers. The scaffold had risen in the square of San Francisco, crowded with onlookers. Dolores had visited with several friends and occupied a preferred place, from there he saw Lucero when he tried to throw himself on his wife and five children, one of them in the chest, who witnessed the scene; But the guard prevented such an outpouring of affection, and shortly afterwards Lucero was shot, scattering the crowd.

Affectation and subsequent suicide

Already at home and very affected by what he had witnessed he took the pen and wrote "'Necrology' appeared on the 27th, on a loose leaf, protesting against the death penalty and asking the" Great All "that a more civilized generation and Humanitarian will come to erase the said Code of the Fatherland, said penalty. On May 5, another leaf containing a replica under the title "A graceful Necrology" was signed by "Unos colegiales", the author of which was Canónigo Dr. Ignacio Marchán, a clumsy and vehement religious disciple of Fray Vicente Solano. Step, mentions. The leaf accused her of being pantheistic because in referring to God she wrote "The Great - All". Thus, someone advised Dolores to answer Marchan with another sheet that came out on May 5, with the pompous title of "Other campanillazo".

She was found dead on May 23, 1857