Jose Jacinto Milanes y Fuentes

                Jose Jacinto Milanes y Fuentes was born in Matanzas on August 16, 1814, and fue uno de los mas distinguidos poetas cubanos de siglo XIX [was one of the most distinguished Cuban poets of the nineteenth century].  He was the author of El Beso, Bajo el mango (poems), La promesa del bandido (a traditional story), El Conde Alarcos, Un poeta en la corte (stage plays), etc.  He died on November 14, 1863.

                A review of a play called Vagos Rumores [Vague Rumors] written by Abelardo Estorino in 1992, reports:  “Undoubtedly the event of the season at Repertorio Espanol, Abelardo Estorino's Vagos Rumores is an ambitious, lyrical study of the life of 19th-century poet Jose Jacinto Milanes. Set in a smoky, dreamy netherworld in which the poet reclaims and reanalyzes his life, the play covers a crucial part of Cuban history. It is an accounting of the ''vague rumors'' that surround a gifted writer's strange life. ….  But Milanes's personal life is really the center here - unusually close to his sister, and enamored with a first cousin, incest becomes a major subtext”.

                Estorino also wrote La dolorosa historia del amor secreto de don José Jacinto Milanes [The painful story of the secret love of Don José Jacinto Milanes] in 1974.

                Jose Jacinto Milanes' relationship to the Figueredos is way distant. He was the 4th great grandson of Jacome Milanes and Juana Ponce, who were, in turn, the 5th great grandparents of Perucho Figueredo.