Hilario Ascasubi

Hilario Ascasubi was born in 1807 in the province of Córdoba, in a cart according to the Notre Dame library. Still a child, he went to sea and his ship, hijacked, took him to Lisbon. A typographer in Salta, he fought in the war against Brazil, then against Rosas, who had him imprisoned in 1829; he escaped two years later, according to Biografías y Vidas. Exiled in Montevideo, he kept a bakery there and published verses against the dictator. Sent on a mission to Paris in 1868, he died in Buenos Aires on 17 November 1875.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetrySantos Vega o los mellizos de la FlorHilario Ascasubi · 1872not translated into EnglishLiterature