Juan Silvano Godoi

Juan Silvano Godoi was born in Asunción on 12 November 1850, or in 1846 according to other records, the son of a colonel and the grandson of Narciso Echagüe, a man of the independence period whom the dictator Francia kept in prison for twenty years before having him shot. Educated by the Jesuits in Santa Fe and in law in Buenos Aires, he sat in 1870 in the constituent assembly. After a failed armed expedition against the government in 1878, he lived eighteen years in exile and brought back from it a library of twenty thousand volumes. Director of the library, the museum and the archives from 1901, he died in Asunción in January 1926.

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• EssayLa muerte del Mariscal LópezJuan Silvano Godoi · 1905not translated into EnglishLiterature