Felipe Pardo y Aliaga

[1] A member of Lima's aristocratic elite, his father was Manuel Pardo Ribadeneira, oidor of the Real Audiencia of Lima, and his mother was Mariana de Aliaga y Borda, daughter of the 2nd Marquise of Fuente Hermosa de Miranda.

He was, along with Manuel Ascencio Segura, the most important representative of early Republican Peruvian literature.

He became a diplomat, representing Peru in Chile and a minister in the cabinet of presidents Felipe Santiago Salaverry, Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco and Ramón Castilla.

Pardo married Petronila de Lavalle y Cabrero, daughter of the 2nd Count of Premio Real.

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