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{{Short description|Defunct Cuban magazine}}
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[[File:El Figaro 1909.png|thumb|317x317px|Cover of El Fígaro, drawn by [[Conrado Walter Massaguer]] in 1909, depicting American tourists to Cuba.]]
'''El Fígaro''' was a [[Cuba]]n [[magazine]] published in [[Havana]] from 1885 to 1929, with irregular publications continuing until 1933.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=El Fígaro |publisher= El Camagüey |url=https://www.elcamaguey.org/autores/el-figaro |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=www.elcamaguey.org}}</ref> It began as a sports magazine, but evolved into a more general interest consumer magazine and became "the driving force of the Cuban press and of national culture."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=El Fígaro - Radio Reloj, emisora cubana de la hora y las noticias |url=https://www.radioreloj.cu/destacadas/el-figaro/ |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=www.radioreloj.cu |language=es-ES}}</ref> El Fígaro included sections on [[theatre]], [[literature]], [[music]], and [[Current affairs (news format)|current affairs]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Ponce> |first=Abel |title=Noticias - BNCJM - el-figaro-una-revista-de-lujo-a-135-anos-de-su-fundacion- |url=https://bnjm.cu/?secc=noticias&idNews=1788&titulo=el-figaro-una-revista-de-lujo-a-135-anos-de-su-fundacion- |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí |language=Es}}</ref> Many of Cuba's early revolutionary writers, poets, painters, artists, journalists, and activists contributed to this magazine.<ref name=":2" />
The National Library of Cuba writes of El Fígaro:
"Without a doubt, El Fígaro is among the most representative periodical publications of the 19th century in Cuba. Its content and illustrations are a reflection of our culture and show the development of the press in the largest of the Antilles, a luxury magazine that, over time, its almost obligatory consultation brings us extraordinary results."<ref name=":2" />
== History ==
On July 23, 1885, El Fígaro was founded by Rafael Bárzaga, Manuel Serafín Pichardo, Ramón A. Catalá, Crescencio Sacerio.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> Its first issue, and several issues that followed, primarily covered [[baseball]] and [[baseball in Cuba]], with the editors writing in the first issue that they were “dedicated to defending the interests of sport in general and especially those of the game of baseball, which has so many fans.”<ref name=":2" />
On September 2, 1886, the mission and purpose of the magazine expanded to cover literature and the arts.<ref name=":0" />
==Notable people==
=== Contributors ===
* [[Juana Borrero]]
* [[Julián del Casal|Julian del Casal]]
* [[Carlos Pio]]
* [[Federico Pio]]
* [[Rubén Darío|Ruben Dario]]
* [[Manuel Sanguily Garritte|Manuel Sanguily]]
* [[Enrique José Varona|Enrique Jose Varona]]
* [[Justo de Lara]]
* [[Conrado Walter Massaguer]]
* [[Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring]]
* [[Manuel Maria Mustelier]]
* [[Vicente Acosta]]
* [[Isabel Margarita Ordetx]]
* [[Agustín Acosta (poet)|Agustín Acosta Bello]]
* [[José Manuel Acosta Bello]]
* [[Gregorio de Laferrère]]
* [[Miguel Ángel Quevedo Pérez]]
* [[Mariano Brull]]
* [[Sarah Méndez Capote]]
* [[Sotero Figueroa]]
* [[María Vinyals]]
* [[Félix B. Caignet]]
* [[José Gómez de la Carrera]]
* [[Rafael Santa Coloma]]
* [[Santiago Quiñones]]
* [[Sebastián Gelabert]]
=== Editors ===
* Rafael Bárzaga (1885 – 1909)
* Manuel Serafín Pichardo (1887 – 1915)
* Ramón A. Catalá (1909 – 1929)<ref>{{Cite web |title=UF Digital Collections |url=https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00054773/00002/citation |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=ufdc.ufl.edu}}</ref>
== References ==
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== External links ==
* University of Florida archive: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00054773/00002/7
* WorldCat: https://search.worldcat.org/title/figaro/oclc/52253694
* UCLA Archive: https://idep.library.ucla.edu/search#!/document/latinamericanandcaribbeanperiodicals:12695
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