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BELLO, ANDRES (1781–1865)

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BELLO, See also:ANDRES (1781–1865) , See also:South See also:American poet and See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Caracas (See also:Venezuela) on the 29th of See also:November 1781, and in See also:early youth held a See also:minor See also:post in the See also:civil See also:administration. He joined the colonial revolutionary party, and in 18ro was sent on a See also:political See also:mission to See also:London, where he resided for nineteen years, acting as secretary to the legations of See also:Chile, See also:Colombia and Venezuela, studying in the See also:British Museum, supplementing his small See also:salary by giving private lessons in See also:Spanish, by journalistic See also:work and by copying See also:Jeremy See also:Bentham's almost indecipherable See also:manuscripts. In 1829 he accepted a post in the Chilean See also:treasury, settled at See also:Santiago and took a prominent See also:part in See also:founding the See also:national university (1843), of which he became See also:rector. He was nominated senator, and died at Santiago de Chile on the 15th of See also:October 1865. Bello was mainly responsible for the civil See also:code promulgated on the 14th of See also:December 1855. His See also:prose See also:works See also:deal with such various subjects as See also:law, See also:philosophy, See also:literary See also:criticism and See also:philology; of these the most important is his Gramletica castellana (1847), the leading authority on the subject.. But his position in literature proper is secured by his Silvas Americanas, a poem written during his See also:residence in See also:England, which conveys with extra-See also:ordinary force the majestic impression of the South American landscape. Bello's See also:complete works were issued in fifteen 'volumes by the Chilean See also:government (Santiago de Chile, 1881–1893) ; he is the subject of an excellent See also:biography (Santiago de Chile, 1882) by See also:Miguel Luis Amunategui. (J. F.-K.) BELLO-HORIZONTE, or See also:MINAS, a See also:city of See also:Brazil, See also:capital of the See also:state of Minas Geraes since 1898, about 50 M. N.W. of Ouro Preto, connected with the Central of Brazil railway by a See also:branch See also:line 9 M. in length. Pop.

(estimated) in 1906, 25,000 to 30,000. The city was built by the state on an open See also:

plateau, and provided with all necessary public buildings, See also:gas, See also:water and See also:tramway services before the seat of government was transferred from Ouro Preto. The cost of See also:transfer was about £1,000,000. The city has grown rapidly, and is considered one of the most attractive state capitals of Brazil.

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