Manuela Sáenz was born in Quito, in the Viceroyalty of New Grenada, on December 27, 1797, the product of an extramarital affair between a Spanish official of the Royal Audiencia of Quito, Simon ...

In 1856, a whaler arrives in Paita, Peru; on board is Herman Melville, who is astonished to learn that Manuela Sáenz, for eight years the lover of Simón Bolívar, is still alive. He calls on her ...