Domingo Rivero
Domingo Rivero was a Spanish poet from the Canary Islands.
Family
He was born in Arucas on 23 March 1852, son of Juan Rivero Bolaños and Rafaela María de San Félix.Marriage and children
Rivero married Doña María de las Nieves del Castillo Olivares y Fierro in 1885. They had seven children:- Fernando
- Dolores
- Nieves
- María del Pino
- María Teresa
- Fernando
- Juan
Early life
In his childhood, he lived in Guía, the town where his father was born.He studied at the Colegio San Agustín de La Palmas de Gran Canaria. In 1869, he was elected to the committee of the Young Republicans. After a brief period in Paris he moved to London in 1870, where he met Fermín Salvochea.
From 1873 to 1881 he studied law in Madrid and Seville.
Career
After his studies he returned to Las Palmas in 1881, and remained in the Canary Islands for the rest of his life. He served as Relator of the National Audience of Las Palmas, and in 1904 became Secretary of the Government of Las Palmas until his retirement on 29 July 1921.Poetry
In 1899, Domingo Rivero wrote his first poem.Due to a meningeal epithelioma, his son Juan died in 1928, which made Rivero give up poetry.
Notable works
"De la ermita perdida..." was the first poem of Domingo Rivero that caused a sensation in people.Various sources point out that "Yo, a mi cuerpo", his most famous work written in 1922, as representing the top of Canary Islands literature at the time.