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Juan María Montalvo Fiallos ( and Ignacio De Veintemilla . After an issue of his book, '' El Cosmopolita '', viciously attacked Moreno, Montalvo was Exile d to Colombia , where he would write most of his later works. He was a dedicated champion of Democracy , was said to have a lucid and inquisitive intellect and a strong, semi- Romantic temperament. His 1880 book ''Catilinarias'' made him famous throughout intellectual circles in the United States , Europe and the rest of Latin America . Alongside full length books, Montalvo was an accomplished essayist, and his ''Siete Tratados'' ( 1882 ) and ''Geometría Moral'' (published in 1902 , after his death) were popular in Ecuador and were banned by Veintemilla. He also wrote a witty Sequel to Miguel De Cervantes 's '' Don Quixote '', called ''Capítulos que se le Olvidaron a Cervantes'' ("Chapters Cervantes Forgot"). Juan Montalvo died of Tuberculosis in Paris , France . His Mummified body now rests in a Mausoleum in his birthplace of Ambato . |
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