“ His next great success was Simón Bocanegra (1843) , but, as his plays were not lucrative, he emigrated to Spanish America, working as a journalist in Cuba and Mexico till 1850, when he returned to Spain. The best works of his later period are a zarzuela entitled El Grumete (1853) , La Venganza catalana (1864) and Juan Lorenzo (1865) . He became head of the archaeological museum at Madrid, and died there on the 6th of August 1884. ”