Don Ricardo Palma: El Patriarca de las Tradiciones

Miró, César, Don Ricardo Palma: El Patriarca de las Tradiciones, Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1953.

Manuel Ricardo Palma Soriano (February 7, 1833 – October 6, 1919) was a Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. His magnum opus is the Tradiciones peruanas. (…)Palma's literary reputation rests upon his creation and development of the literary genre known as tradiciones, short stories that mix history and fiction, written both to amuse and educate, according to the author's declared intention. It was by creatively using poetic license and by deviating from "pure" history that Palma gained his large South American readership. His Tradiciones peruanas span several centuries, with an emphasis on earlier colonial and republican times in Peru.

Manuel Ricardo Palma Carrillo (Lima, 7 de febrero de 1833 – Miraflores, Lima, 6 de octubre de 1919), conocido como El Bibliotecario Mendigo, fue un escritor romántico, costumbrista, tradicionista, periodista y político peruano, famoso principalmente por sus relatos cortos de ficción histórica reunidos en el libro Tradiciones peruanas. Cultivó prácticamente todos los géneros.