Al triunfo de Lima y el Callao
Subtitle: cielito patriotico
By: que compuso el gaucho Ramom [sic] Contreras
Publisher: Imprenta de Alvarez.
Published: 1821
Place of publication: Buenos Aires
Language: spa
Subjects: Uruguayan Folk poetry; Broadsides; Poetry; History
Notes: Caption title.

Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.

The Catalógo Colectivo de Impresos Latinoamericanos lists the Imprenta de Alvarez of Buenos Aires as the printer of the serial El patriota in 1821 and does not give another instance of a printer named Alvarez in Buenos Aires.

In his "Bibliografía del general don José de San Martín y de la emancipación sudamericana", vol. 5, p. 62, Carlos I. Salas points out that Ramón Contreras was the pseudonym of this author.

The Uruguayan Bartolomé Hidalgo was one of the first poets from Río de la Plata to adopt the tone and style of gaucho literature, a distinctive and very important lyrical and prose genre of the region. He was a founder of the style, and initially, he was the author of various patriotic "cielitos", a traditional folkloric dance from the Argentine pampas. He later achieved a degree of excellence with his Diálogos patrióticos.

Concerning the triumph of the insurgent patriots over the Spanish forces.

The stanzas are separated by a row of ornaments and printed in two parallel columns.

Purchase; 2017; 18-081.