Esteban de Terralla y Landa (Simón Ayanque)

Gender:Male

Ethnic origen: White

Events:

1750  -  Andalucía  -  Not applicable  -  He was born here.
1787  -  Lima  -  Unknown  -  He arrived in Lima around 1787.
1787  -  Mexico  -  Unknown  -  He was in Mexico before 1787.
1787-1797  -  Cajamarca  -  Unknown  -  He had mining interests here and lived here for a decade.
1792  -  Lima  -  Unknown  -  He possibly died in 1792.
1797  -  Lima  -  Unknown  -  His Lima por dentro y fuera, a satire of Lima life was published.

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Writers (men)

Texts:
1921 - Lima por dentro y fuera

Biography:
A satirical writer born in Andalucia, Spain who wrote under the pseudonym Simón Ayanque. (Coester, 35)

He arrived in Lima around 1787 (from Mexico). Viceroy Teodoro Croix was his protector, but when he returned to Spain all doors were shut in Terralla’s face. He then wrote Lima por dentro y fuera, (1797) a satire of Lima life. (Romero de Valle, 312)

While in Peru, he was dedicated to the mining industry in Cajamarca province. When he returned to Spain all doors were closed in his face as he was considered to be a dangerous man to admit to one's home. At the end of 1792 he was mortally injured in combat. (Medina, 209)

References:

Coester, Alfred (1919) The Literary History of Spanish America
Medina, José Toribo (1988) La imprenta en Lima (1584-1824), Tomo III, 1768-1810
Romero de Valle, Emilia (1966) Diccionario manual de literatura peruana y materias afines