This biography of Andrés Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual, statesman and poet, was the first to appear in English. It provides a comprehensive interpretation of Bello's work, gives an account of his life based on new information from archives in four countries, and sheds new light on this critical period in Latin American history.

This is the first book-length biography in English of Andres Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual.