Esteban de Luca

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Gender: M
Ethnic origin: Unknown

Biographical details

A poet, mathematician and a metallurgist, born in 1786. He wrote several poems to commemorate the battles of independence. "Al pueblo de Buenos Aires" urged people to live in the countryside and raise cattle and horses. He was among the 28 members of La Sociedad de Buen Gusto, that had its first meeting in July 1817. It was founded to perform dramas. He died in a shipwreck in the Río de la Plata in 1824. (Coaster, 57, 58)

(Related to Isabel Casamayor de de Luca?)

Life Events

Born	1786
Other	1817	He was a member of the Sociedad de Buen Gusto.
Died	1824	He died in a shipwreck in the Río de la Plata.

References

Coester, Alfred, (1919), The Literary History of Spanish America

Publications

There is no writing by this subject in the database.

Links

Resource id #25 (28)

Resource id #29 (127)

Gendering Latin American Independence

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