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• VENTURA RUIZ AGUILERA (182o-1881)

AGUILERA (182o-1881)  , Spanish poet, was born in 1820 at Salamanca, where he graduated in medicine . He removed to Madrid in 1844, engaged in journalism and won considerable popularity with a collection of poems entitled Ecos nacionales (1849) . His Elegias y Armonias (1863) was no less successful, but his Slams (1874) and Estaciones del alto (1879) showed that his powers were declining . He wrote under the obvious influence of Lamartine, preaching the gospel of liberal-ism and Christianity in verses which, though deficient in force, leave the impression of a sincere devotion and a charming personality . He became director of the national archaeological museum at Madrid, where he died on the 1st of July 1881 .