ABSTRACT
In October of 1826, as Spain resigned itself to the loss of its American empire, and John Miers to the failure of his copper enterprise in Chile; as Simon Bolívar routed the last royalist stronghold in Peru, and Alexander von Humboldt toiled in Paris on the third volume of the Personal Narrative, the first issue of a new periodical appeared in London. It was a Spanish-language magazine titled the Repertoria Americano, founded by Venezuelan intellectual Andrés Bello, who had traveled to London in 1810 with Bolívar to seek Britain’s help against Spanish rule. Enmeshed in the metropolis, Bello remained in London for nineteen years before returning to South America in 1829 to become one of the foremost statesmen and intellectuals of the postindependence era.
