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ANTONIO DE TRUEBA (1519-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 322 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTONIO DE See also:TRUEBA (1519-1889)  , See also:Spanish novelist, was See also:born on the 24th of See also:December 1819 at Montellano (See also:Biscay),where he was privately educated . In 1835 he was sent to learn business at See also:Madrid; but See also:commerce was not to his See also:taste, and, after a See also:long See also:apprenticeship, he turned to journalism . In 1851 he See also:hit the popular taste with El See also:Cid Campeador and El Libro de los cantares; for the next eleven years he was absorbed by journalistic See also:work, the best of his contributions being issued under the titles of Cuentos populares (1862), Cuentos de color de See also:rosa (1864), and Cuentos campesinos (1865) . The pleasant simplicity and idyllic sentimentalism of these collections delighted an uncritical public, and See also:Trueba met the demand by supplying a See also:series of stories conceived in the same ingenuous vein . In 1862 he was appointed archivist and chronicler of the Biscay provinces; he was deprived of the former See also:post in 187o, but was reinstated after the restoration . He died at See also:Bilbao on the loth of See also:March 1889 .

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