Francisco Gavidia
Francisco Antonio Gavidia Guandique (1863 in
San Miguel – 24 September 1955 in
San Salvador) was a prominent
Salvadoran writer, historian, politician,
speaker,
translator,
educator and
journalist. His
poetry evolved from
romanticism to a reflective direction and conceptual character. He was greatly influenced by
French poetry of the time and he introduced
Rubén Darío to adapt the
Alexandrian verse to the Castilian metre in addition to entering the story, poetry and essays. The trajectory of his poetry is similar to the one of his theater, as he demonstrates in his dramas Jupiter (1885), Ursino (1889), Count of San Salvador or the God of the things (1901), Lucia Lasso or the Pirates (1914) and the Ivory Tower (1920), and the dramatic poem Princess Catalá (1944).
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