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Palma Ricardo
(1833—1919)

Peruvian scholar and author. Palma abandoned an active early career as a naval officer, journalist, and politician to achieve note as a historian with a book on the Inquisition in Lima (1863). After the War of the Pacific (1879–84) he was in charge of rebuilding the destroyed national library. He made it one of the finest libraries in South... More...

Cuba, 1989, Ricardo Palma

Peru, 1984, Ricardo Palma