He was, perhaps, the most complete man of Argentine letters of his time.
He traveled to Europe and countries of the American continent; he was a constituent congressman in 1853, minister of the Argentine Confederacy, and rector of the University of Buenos Aires.
He collected his polished, passionate poems in 1869 and published a selection of them in a volume.
Among them is "Endecha del Gaucho", which, with some arrangement by Gardel-Razzano, the duo recorded nearly fifty years later under the title "El moro".