Bibliografia de Francisco Lazo Martin
Bibliografia de Francisco Lazo Martin
Bibliografia de Francisco Lazo Martin
Licenciado como médico en la Universidad Central de Venezuela, ejerció en los llanos centrales en
pueblos como San Fernando de Apure, Puerto Nutrias, Zaraza, El Sombrero y su pueblo natal.
En 1897 contrajo matrimonio con Francisca Rodríguez, que en 1900, presenta síntomas de
tuberculosis, enfermedad que causó su fallecimiento en 1903.
A últimos de 1904 se mudó a Puerto Nutrias, y en 1905 se casó con Veturia Velazco Campins. A
Lazo Martí se le trasladó a Calabozo en 1907, enfermo de hemiplejia, y en 1909, a Caracas,
después pasó a Maiquetía.
Como escritor se inicia como redactor en 1892, tras fundar el periódico El Legalista, desde el que
apoyó la Revolución Legalista de Joaquín Crespo y donde hace oposición al presidente Raimundo
Andueza Palacio. También fue colaborador en El Cojo Ilustrado.
Francisco Lazo Martí falleció de una apoplejía cerebral el 8 de julio de 1909 en Maiquetía,
Venezuela.
Biography of Francisco Lazo Martí
Francisco Lazo Martí was born on March 14, 1869 in Calabozo, Venezuela.
Graduated as a doctor at the Central University of Venezuela, he practiced in the central plains in
towns such as San Fernando de Apure, Puerto Nutrias, Zaraza, El Sombrero and his hometown.
In Calabozo he gave literature classes at the First Category College, being also deputy director.
At the end of 1904 he moved to Puerto Nutrias, and in 1905 he married Veturia Velazco Campins.
Lazo Martí was transferred to Calabozo in 1907, suffering from hemiplegia, and in 1909, to
Caracas, later he moved to Maiquetía.
As a writer, he began as an editor in 1892, after founding the newspaper El Legalista, from which
he supported the Legalista Revolution of Joaquín Crespo and where he opposed President
Raimundo Andueza Palacio. He was also a collaborator in El Cojo Ilustrado.
Recognized as the greatest Venezuelan exponent of Creole nativism, in 1901 his work, Silva criolla
a un bardo amigo, was presented, which gave impetus to the literary movement of criollo poetry
that at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, to which authors such as MV
Romero Garcia and Romulo Gallegos.
Other of his poems are Crepusculares, written between 1893 and 1894; Veguera, published in the
Cojo Ilustrado on September 1, 1897, Flor de Pascua and Consuelo. His poetic work appeared
published in El Álbum (1895); in the newspaper El Verbo Liberal and in El Cojo Ilustrado (1897).
Francisco Lazo Martí died of a cerebral apoplexy on July 8, 1909 in Maiquetía, Venezuela.