1. Vicente Medina's fame has since declined, and he is little read; but he remains an important figure as the greatest poet to have written in the Murcian dialect.
10 Facts About Vicente Medina
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Vicente Medina was born in 1866 in the small spa town of Archena, some 25 kilometres from the regional capital Murcia.
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Vicente Medina's mother was a dressmaker; his father, Juan de Dios Medina, was a small businessman who was known for his love of literature and the arts.
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Juan de Dios ran the store at the Archena spa, where the young Vicente Medina was exposed to authors such as Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Jose de Espronceda, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola.
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Outraged at the way local dialect had been used as comic relief in Carnival celebrations, Vicente Medina had set about to write a serious work in the local Murcian Spanish; the result was El Rento, first performed in 1898.
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Vicente Medina gathered the series of poems that he had composed in preparation for El Rento and released them as Aires murcianos, which would become his most famous and successful work.
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Vicente Medina emigrated to Argentina in 1905, following several family members.
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Vicente Medina continued to work, editing a literary magazine called Letras and publishing an anti-war poem, La Cancion de la guerra, in 1915 during the First World War.
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Vicente Medina returned to Murcia in 1931, releasing his final book, Belen de pastores y villancicos, there; but with the Spanish Civil War on the verge of breaking out, he was advised to return to Argentina for his safety and he did so in 1936, already ill.
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Vicente Medina died in 1937 in Rosario, Santa Fe, where he is buried at Cemetery of La Piedad.