The first book-length biography in English of Andrés Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual, first published in 2001.
Introduction; 1. The formation of a colonial scholar, 1781-1810; 2. Exile and scholarship in London, 1810-20; 3. The diplomacy of Independence, 1820-9; 4. In the 'land of anarchy', 1829-40; 5. A decade of triumph, 1840-50; 6. The rule of law; 7. The return of Mio Cid; 8. Conclusion: farewell to Nestor.