An immortal pine tree

I know that some will be surprised when I tell them that Cirilo Villaverde, the renowned author of the novel Cecilia Valdés or La Loma del Ángel, considered the peak work of the Cuban letters of the nineteenth century, which was also taken to the cinema and served as the basis for the zarzuela of the same name as Gonzalo Roig, is considered among the most important traditionalist writers of the Cuban press and literature, who also published mult…