GUIDO Y SPANO, Carlos, Argentine poet, born in Salta, 8 March, 1832. He was graduated in law at the University of San Carlos, Buenos Ayres, in 1853, practised in Buenos Ayres, and in 1862 was elected deputy to the Federal congress, where he became one of the leaders of the National party. In 1865 he was elected president of the national congress, but when the war with Paraguay began he resigned, and served as lieutenant-colonel. In 1872 he was elected to the national senate, and was its president for four years. During the yellow-fever epidemic of 1871 he was one of the members of the popular commission for the relief of the sufferers. He is now (1887) keeper of the national records in Buenos Ayres. He began to write verses while still in college, and has gained reputation as a poet. The greater part of his poems have been collected in his book "Hojas al Viento" (Buenos Ayres, 1871). Guido is one of the most popular poets of the Argentine.