Agripina Samper Agudelo

{{Short description|Colombian poet (1833–1892)}}

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| name = Agripina Samper Agudelo

| image = Agripina Samper Agudelo de Ancízar.jpg

| pseudonym = Pía Rigán

| birth_name = Agripina Casimira de los Dolores Samper Agudelo

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1833|03|04|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Honda, Cundinamarca,
New Granada

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1892|04|22|1833|03|04|df=yes}}

| death_place = Paris, France

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| language = Spanish

| nationality = Colombian

| period = 1853—1892

| genre = Poetry

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| movement = Costumbrismo

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| spouse = {{marriage|Manuel Ancízar Basterra|1857|1882}}

| children = {{hidden||Roberto Ancízar Samper
Pablo Ancízar Samper
Inés Ancízar Samper
Jorge Ancízar Samper
Manuel Ancízar Samper}}

| relatives = {{hidden||José María Samper Agudelo (brother)
Miguel Samper Agudelo (brother)
Soledad Acosta Kemble
(sister-in-law)
Bertilda Samper Acosta
(niece)}}

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{{family name hatnote|Samper|Agudelo|lang=Spanish}}

Agripina Casimira de los Dolores Samper Agudelo{{cite book |url=http://www.interconexioncolombia.com/documentos/genealogia/tomo4/1.%20GENEALOGIA%20COLOMBIANA/1-4%20%20ERNESTO%20SAMPER%20PIZANO%20FAMILIARES%20Y%20PARENTELA.pdf |chapter=Ernesto Samper Pizano, Familiares Y Parentela |language=es |first=Julio Cesar |last=García Vásquez |title=Genealogía Colombiana |type=Family tree |publisher=Interconexion Colombia |access-date=2013-04-08}} (4 March 1833 — 22 April 1892){{cite journal |editor1-first=Daniel |editor1-last=Samper Ortega |year=1935–1936 |trans-title=Village Library of Colombia |title=Biblioteca Aldeana de Colombia |issue=89 |page=96 |publisher=Editorial Minerva |location=Bogotá |oclc=316816714 |language=es |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316816714 |access-date=2013-04-08}} was a Colombian poet. Having a literary family, she received an education not easily accessible to women of her time and country. She wrote prose and poetry under the pseudonym "Pía-Rigán", an anagram of her given name. Her work remained unpublished during her lifetime and was only anthologized and published posthumously.

Personal life

Born Agripina Casimira de los Dolores on 4 March 1833 in the city of Honda, then part of the Department of Cundinamarca, her parents were José María Samper Blanco and María Tomasa Agudelo y Tafur, she was their only daughter and seventh out of the eight children born to José María and María Tomasa. Two of her siblings stand out: José María, who married Soledad Acosta Kemble, both were writers and journalists in their own right; and Miguel, writer and prominent politician. On 4 July 1857 she married Manuel Ancízar Basterra, a scientist and writer, and out this marriage were born Roberto, Pablo, Inés, Jorge, and Manuel.{{cite journal |title=Anuario colombiano de historia social y de la cultura |trans-title=Colombian Annuary of Social History and Culture |issue=26–27 |publisher=National University of Colombia |location=Bogotá |language=es |issn=0120-2456 |oclc=1586457 |page=76 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/220952150 |access-date=2013-04-08}} When she widowed in 1882, she moved with her children to Paris, where she died on 22 April 1892.

Selected works

  • {{cite book |last1=Samper |first1=José María |author-link1=José María Samper |last2=Samper |first2=Agripina |title=Ecos de los Andes |trans-title=Echos of the Andes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bbspAAAAYAAJ |year=1860 |publisher=E. Thunot |location=Paris |language=es |oclc=12355033 |trans-chapter=Poetic Essays of Pía-Rigán |chapter=Ensayos Poéticos de Pía-Rigán |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bbspAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA341 }}
  • {{cite book |url=http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/literatura/parnacol/asamper.pdf |title=Parnaso Colombiano: Colección de Poesías Escogidas |first=Julio |last=Añez |publisher=Luis Ángel Arango Library |language=es |trans-title=Colombian Parnassus: Selected Poetry of Agripina Samper |access-date=2010-11-02 }}

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