The Lugones Legacy Revives in Tucumán Through Gabriela del Corro Lugones
Gabriela del Corro Lugones. Las Talitas 2025. Tucumán 12/09/2025. By Pablo Félix Jiménez | 25/09/ 2025 Tucumán, Argentina. At the 2nd Encuentro Nacional de Escritores del Sol held in Las Talitas on September 12, 2025, educator and cultural manager Gabriela del Corro Lugones shared a unique testimony: the story of her family lineage, which connects Argentina’s independence struggle with Latin American literary modernism. As a descendant of Colonel Lorenzo Lugones and a relative of poet Leopoldo Lugones , she illustrated how family memory intertwines with national history. An ancestor in Argentina’s independence battles Colonel Lorenzo Lugones Trejo (1796–1868), born in Santiago del Estero, marched with Manuel Belgrano in the Éxodo Jujeño and fought in the Battle of Tucumán in 1812. He later served as aide-de-camp to General Gregorio Aráoz de La Madrid during the campaigns in Upper Peru. Beyond his military role, he left behind memoirs narrating these even...