Birth Name: Rafael Alberti Merello
Date of Birth: December 16, 1902
Place of Birth: El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), Spain
Date of Death: October 28, 1999
Place of Death: El Puerto de Santa María
Ethnicity: Italian, Spanish (Andalusian), possibly Irish
Rafael Alberti was a Spanish artist, a member of the Generation of ’27. He is considered one of the greatest literary figures of the so-called Silver Age of Spanish Literature.
Rafael was the son of María Merello and Vicente Alberti.
Alberti’s paternal grandparents were Italian. His maternal grandparents were from Medina-Sidonia and El Puerto de Santa María.
Some references says that his maternal grandmother was of Irish descent.