Devele badge dedicated to precursory canary of Cuban literature

Camagüey, - A brass badge with unpublished references on Silvestre of Balboa and Troya (1563-1649), author of the first work of the Cuban literature, with unknown and misticized life, was develed in this city, Day of the National Culture.

The piece a hundred pounds weight, with a meter wide and seventy centimeters of high, distinguishes the author of the poem Mirror of Patience (1608) and the writing of this in the old village of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, current Camagüey.

With golden letters on bottom black, hard-working of Camagüey of Rail Shops fused, to a side and envelope the silhouette of a parchment, the real octave of the first song, and to the other one, a text that recognizes the residence here of Balboa between 1600 and 1641.

In the little square Juana of the Castle, one of the places proclaimed Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, the writer and investigating Ramiro García Medina, author of the initiative of the Association Canaria of Cuba, carried out the develing next to its granddaughter María of Jesus Fields García, coed of seventh grade, and José Ángel Sosa Castillo, of fifth grade.

“I give this badge to the new generations with the desire that the people of Camagüey defends the merit of the region like Cradle of the Cuban Literature”,declared the immigrant canary, resided in Cuba since 1959.

García Medina announced the next exit of his book Life of Silvestre of Balboa and Troya (1563-1649): The precursory canary of the Cuban Literature, in edition process in the territorial editorial Ácana.

That material summarizes the results of his investigation about Balboa, carried out during 18 years, and that will clarify for the data found in more than 500 photocopies of documents of the General File of Indies, Spain, added.

The homage to one of the notaries of the formerly village had the presentation of the group Canaricuba that preserves songs and dances of the Islands Canaries, region with more representativeness in the Hispanic community of Cuba.(Yanetsy León González)