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José Alonso y Trelles

Uruguayan poet (1857–1924)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ876748 ↗
Source-derived summary

José Alonso y Trelles (1857–1924) was a Uruguayan poet who wrote under the pseudonym El Viejo Pancho.

Literary works

John the madman (poem of two cantos. Foreword Orosmán Moratorium. Montevideo, 1867 )

Guacha! (National drama in one act. Printing and publishing house "Renaissance" by Luis and Manuel Perez. Charter-prologue Monegal Casiano . Montevideo, 1913 )

Paja brava (1st ed. Verses Creoles. Printing and publishing house "Renaissance" of Luis and Manuel Perez.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “José Alonso y Trelles” is uruguayan poet (1857–1924). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through José, Alonso and Trelles, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1857, 1924, 1867, 1913—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1857-05-07. For this dossier, José, Alonso and Trelles is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “uruguayan poet (1857–1924)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q876748. VIAF identifies the subject as 45633584. The Library of Congress control number is n81141817. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1857, 1924, 1867 and 1913.

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This entry incorporates text from “José Alonso y Trelles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.