Vicente Blasco Ibanez (1867-1928). Spain. Born in Valencia on January 29, 1867. He studied law but did not exercise the profession and devoted himself to politics and literature. With twenty years began in the Masonry the February 6, 1887 and adopted the symbolic name of Danton at the Lodge Union No. 14. There was commissioned by President Raymond Poincare of writing this novel about the war: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916), which was a real hit in the United States. Blasco Ibanez died in Menton (France) on January 28, 1928.