Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561–1627). The birth of a generation

In 1923, the Real Academia de Ciencias, Bellas Letras y Nobles Artes of Cordoba commissioned the archivist José de la Torre and three other academy members to organize the tricentenary of the death of Góngora. De la Torre was immersed in his research on notarial protocols until 1927. This research led to the discovery of an article in the Diario Córdoba newspaper which –according to Amelia de Paz– “includes information providing local electoral rolls from the 15th century, and notarial documents relating to various forebears of Don Luis on his mother’s side. He therefore managed to provide convincing evidence that supports the story that the ancestral home of the Góngora family was located on the street now called Tomás Conde in the Jewish quarter of Cordoba.”