A LEGAL TEXT

Defensa de José Pastor Peña ante la Corte Suprema, en el Juicio Criminal promovido contra él, por los hermanos de Don Manuel Cifuentes. Primera parte, conteniendo la historia I análisis de los hechos de la causa. Santiago. 1845.

Octavo, (19 x 13.4 cm), 58 pp., (includes Title page, bl). Bound with leather spine and gilt titles. Cordoba, b. 266, p. 66. First edition.

This defense has been the subject of study; its foundations deserved, among others, the analysis of Dr. Olsen A. Ghirardi, a law scholar, who addressed the use of Logic by Alberdi, and he did so by analyzing precisely this legal piece.

Away from his homeland due to the political climate -Alberdi was a confessed anti-Rosista-, he first settled in Montevideo and after a trip to Europe -there he studied Applied Law in Genoa, and in Paris he interviewed José de San Martín twice- , finally settled in Chile, where he lived for seventeen years.

In the trans-Andean country, in the city of Valparaíso, he practiced his profession as a lawyer and deepened his profession as a journalist, in addition to publicizing his political texts of enormous importance in Argentina. Here we find him in full legal work.