[57] la ciudad de los Reyes, Lima.
[58] volver tarumba, to drive one crazy. VARIANT: Sorber el seso; derretir.
[59] José Enrique Rodó. A Uruguayan writer born in 1872.
[60] de todos modos, in any case; anyway. VARIANT: Sea lo que fuera (or como fuere); con todo.
[61] Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. An Argentine writer and statesman.
[62] en el estrecho marco que significa una vida humana, within the narrow limits which mark a single lifetime.
[63] Tal ocurre, Such is the case; this happens. VARIANT: Eso ocurre (or pasa, or sucede).
[64] Enrique José Varona. A well-known Cuban writer and educator.
[65] por doquier, everywhere. VARIANTS: Por todas partes; doquiera.
[66] Cirilo Villaverde. A Cuban novelist.