Andrés Bello

(1781-1865)

Bello (Public domain image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Multimedia

See "Listen..." for a recording of Silva a la Agricultura de la Zona Tórrida from a December 2007 reading by Martín Gaspar, graduate student in Spanish at Harvard University.

Harvard Libraries

"La agricultura de la zona tórrida"in The Golden Treasury of Spanish American Verse.
Vida de Don Andrés Bello by Miguel Luis Amunátegui, 1882 and via Google Books
A la memoria de Andres Bello en su centenario. Homenaje del "Repertorio colombiano"
Andrés Bello (www.simon-bolivar.org)
Andrés Bello by Gregorio Weinberg Text of an article from Prospects: the quarterly review of comparative education (Paris, UNESCO: International Bureau of Education), vol. XXIII, no. 1/2, 1993, p. 71-83)
Text of Poesias (Prólogo de Fernando Paz Castillo) hosted by Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2001
Texts of poems hosted by Palabra Virtual
Biography in Encyclopedia Britannica