Emiliano Florentino

He was a bookkeeper, stenographer, typist, and accountant before dedicating himself to museology.

He oversaw the literary section of El Damujino (Abreus, Cienfuegos, 1930-1931) and La Correspondencia (1958-1959), founded the magazine Génesis in 1932, was editor of the Ateneo de Cienfuegos magazine and secretary of that institution, and contributor to several national magazines, member of the National Union of Historians of Cuba (UNIHC), of the Committee for Monumental and Environmental Development and of the Provincial Commission of History of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) of Cienfuegos.

He taught numerous courses and lectures, and the Provincial Direction of Culture awarded him the Jagua prize for his sustained cultural work (1998).