The Author
Francisco Jose Cabrera Perez-Salazar was born in Puebla, Mexico, in 1916.  He studied with the Jesuits at Ysleta College near El Paso, Texas, earning his M.A. in Classical Humanities in 1938.  He then studied classics at the University of Notre Dame in the USA, where he fulfilled all requirements for a Ph.D. in Humanities in 1944.  Returning to his country, he enrolled at the National University of Mexico, receiving his law degree in 1961.  Soon afterward he began working for Folger's Coffee, a branch of Procter and Gamble.  Having retired to Cuernavaca, Mexico, he began to write the cycle of poems starts with Monumenta Mexicana (2004) and continues  with the publication of Benito Juarez (2006).

The Translator
William Cooper (BA, English, Harvard '59; MA,T, English, Harvard '61; MA, English, University of California, Santa Barbara '67), was born in Oakland, California in 1938.  He studied Latin and English at Harvard College and taught English at Allan Hancock College where, inspired by Sr. Cabrera's poetry and the Living Latin movement, he introduced a Latin course.  After retirement, he studied with Reginald Foster at Rome in 2001.  His collaboration with Francisco Cabrera began in 2002.