Ventura Ruiz Aguilera

Ventura Ruiz Aguilera (1820–1881) was a Spanish lyric poet, called "the Spanish Béranger.”

Biography He was born in 1820 at Salamanca, where he graduated in medicine. He moved to Madrid in 1844, where he engaged in political journalism and later occupied important official positions under the liberal ministries. Aguilera became director of the National Archaeological Museum at Madrid, where he died on 1 July 1881.

Writing Aguilera won considerable popularity with a collection of poems entitled Ecos Nacionales (1849). Del agua mansa nos libre Dios, 1847 Bernardo de Saldaña, 1848 Un conspirador de a folio, 1848 Camino de Portugal, 1849 La limosna y el perdón, 1853 El beso de Judas, 1860 Obras poéticas. Elegías, 1862 Proverbios ejemplares, 1864 Armonías y cantares, 1865 El mundo al revés, 1865, 2 v. Inspiraciones: poesías selectas, 1865 La arcadia moderna, 1867 Cuentos del día, 1868 Balada de Cataluña, 1868 El libro de la patria, 1869 La leyenda de Noche-Buena, 1872 Las estaciones del año, 1879