Ignacio Mariscal was an important Mexican writer

Writer

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 and diplomat

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. He was Vice President, as well as Secretary of Foreign Affairs in 1871 - 1872. He was reelected for this work four times: 1880-1883, 1885–1890, 1890–1902, 1902-1910. In 1909, he was the President of Mexican Academy of the Language. He wrote several books; among them:

• 1882: Historia de las dificultades entre México y Guatemala. Proyectada Intervención de Estados Unidos. Algunos documentos oficiales
• 1900: Don Nicolás Bravo o la clemencia mexicana
• 1906: Episodios en la vida de Juárez
• 1911: Ignacio Mariscal. Poesías (posthumous)
• The book "Don Nicolás Bravo o la clemencia mexicana" was the source of the Libretto
  Libretto
  A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...
  
   for the opera: "Nicolás Bravo
  Nicolás Bravo
  Nicolás Bravo was a Mexican politician and soldier. He distinguished himself in both offices during the 1846–1848 U.S. invasion of Mexico....
  
  " (1910), composed by Rafael J. Tello Rojas. This composition received an award as the best original operatic work celebrating the Mexican Independence Centennial (1810–1910).