Alberto Arvelo Torrealba
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Alberto Arvelo Torrealba (Barinas, Venezuela, September 4, 1905 - Caracas, March 28, 1971) was a Venezuelan lawyer, educator and poet, author of the famous poem Florentino y El Diablo.
He went to primary school in his native city whereas he went to Caracas secondary school, where he graduated in 1927. He went to college at [[Central University of Venezuela, where he received the lawyer degree and later doctor in political sciences in 1935. Poet in the plains traditions, he publishes his first volume of verses, Música de Cuatro, in 1928. Dedicated to teaching, he taught classes in Castilian and Literature in several schools and grammar school of the metropolitan zone (1935-1936): School of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Sucre school, Pedagogical Institute, Caracas grammar school, Andrés Bello and Fermín Toro. Technical inspector of secondary education in the Federal District and inspecting of primary in Barinas and Apure (1936), soon is named secretary of government of the Portugesa, (1937). He was the president of the Technical Council of Education in 1940. In that same year he publishes his Glosas to the song book, that constitutes a poetry model with popular root and in where in addition, published the first version of his poem Florentino y El Diablo. Between 1941 and 1944 he was the president of the Barinas state. During his government, cleaned the channels of the rivers Pagüey and Masparro and restore the commercial routes in the territory of the level ones of the West. He was a full member of the Court of Appeal (1948).
He also was ambassador of Venezuela in Bolivia from 1951 to 1952 and Italy in 1952. He was Minister of Agriculture from 1952 to 1955. Retired of the policy, He dedicates to the exercise of his profession and his literary vocation. Translator of Giuseppe Ungaretti (1969), publishes a study on the poet Francisco Martí Bow (1965) and reunites his Poetic Work poems (1967). On May 31, 1968, was incorporated like an Individual number number of the Venezuelan Academy of Language. Between the main works of Arvelo Torrealba they appear: Caminos que andan; Cantas, poems:Florentino y el diablo; Lazo Martí: vigencia en lejanía; Música de Cuatro y Obra Poética.
