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Lucio Vicente López
1848–1894
A sharp-eyed Argentine man of letters, he moved easily between fiction, journalism, law, and politics. Best remembered for La gran aldea, he captured the social life and tensions of 19th-century Buenos Aires with wit and a close observer’s eye.
2 Audiobooks
Argentina, Legend and History
by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Carlos O. (Carlos Octavio) Bunge, Luis María Drago, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Pedro Goyena, Juan María Gutiérrez, Pedro Lacasa, Lucio Vicente López, Vicente Fidel López, Vicente López y Planes, Bartolomé Mitre, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Marcos Sastre
La gran aldea; costumbres bonaerenses
by Lucio Vicente López
About the author
Born in Montevideo in 1848 during his family's exile, he was the son of historian and politician Vicente Fidel López and the grandson of Vicente López y Planes, author of the Argentine national anthem. He later built his own career as a writer, journalist, lawyer, and politician in Argentina.
He is especially known as the author of La gran aldea (1884), a novel often valued for its vivid picture of Buenos Aires society in the late 19th century. He also wrote Recuerdos de viaje and worked on historical and legal subjects, showing the same curiosity about public life that shaped his journalism and political work.
His public career reached into high office, including service as Argentina's minister of the interior in the 1890s. He died in Buenos Aires in 1894, leaving behind a body of work closely tied to the culture and debates of his time.