apr 1, 1793 - Guatemalan poet

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The Guatemalan poet Rafael Landivar (born in 1731) dies at the age of sixty-two. He was one of the Jesuits expelled from the Americas by Spain. He had been part of the Enlightenment that had spread to Spain's American colonies. He had written:

Now, those of you whom subtle genius has raised above the common herd, put off the custom of yesterday, and clothe yourselves with the new.

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